{"id":128001,"date":"2021-08-23T21:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128001"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:14:43","slug":"india-to-add-35-more-earthquake-observatories-by-end-of-this-year-and-100-more-by-year-2026-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-add-35-more-earthquake-observatories-by-end-of-this-year-and-100-more-by-year-2026-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"India to Add 35 More Earthquake Observatories by End of This Year and 100 More by Year 2026: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1747879\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister addressed the inaugural ceremony of the Joint Scientific Assembly of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) &#8211; International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth\u2019s Interior (IASPEI).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the Joint Assembly:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IAGA-IASPEI have come together to hold a joint assembly in 2021. The assembly is being hosted by the CSIR-NGRI with the support of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Note<\/strong>: CSIR-NGRI denotes Council of Scientific and Industrial Research\u2013National Geophysical Research Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>Key Highlights from the address:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Indian subcontinent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is considered as one of the world&#8217;s most disaster-prone areas in terms of earthquakes, landslides, cyclones, floods and tsunamis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>In the last six decades, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India had only 115 Earthquake Observatories. In future, India is going to have 35 more earthquake Observatories by the end of 2021 and 100 more such Observatories in the next five years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">National Centre for Seismology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><b style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">NCS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">):<\/span><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>NCS is an office of India&#8217;s Ministry of Earth Science<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. The office monitors earthquakes and conducts seismological research. Specifically, it provides earthquake surveillance and hazard reports to governmental agencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Divisions: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of various divisions. Such as,<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earthquake Monitoring &amp; Services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earthquake Hazard &amp; Risk Assessments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geophysical Observation Systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>In 2017,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> NCS launched a mobile app called &#8220;IndiaQuake&#8221;. The app provides real-time information about the parameters of earthquakes occurring in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #f2e9f1;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-north-east-is-more-vulnerable-to-earthquakes-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why North-East is More Vulnerable to Earthquakes? \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Union Minister addressed the inaugural ceremony of the Joint Scientific Assembly of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) &#8211; International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth\u2019s Interior (IASPEI).\u00a0 About the Joint Assembly: The IAGA-IASPEI have come together to hold a joint assembly in 2021. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-add-35-more-earthquake-observatories-by-end-of-this-year-and-100-more-by-year-2026-govt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India to Add 35 More Earthquake Observatories by End of This Year and 100 More by Year 2026: Govt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[411,3055,9261],"class_list":["post-128001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-disaster-management","tag-earthquake","tag-earthquake-observatory","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704640401},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}