{"id":219747,"date":"2022-12-24T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219747"},"modified":"2022-12-24T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:22:36","slug":"around-60-of-india-prone-to-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/around-60-of-india-prone-to-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 60% of India prone to earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cAround 60% of India prone to earthquakes<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 23rd December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union minister for science and technology has informed Lok Sabha that around 59% of the landmass of India (covering all states) is prone to earthquakes of different shaking intensities.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is an Earthquake?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/earthquakes-in-india-measurement-and-preparedness\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Earthquake Risk in India<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the seismic zoning map of India prepared by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), India has been divided into four zones \u2013 II, III, IV and V.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone V is seismically the most active region while Zone II is the least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 11% of the country falls in Zone V, 18% in Zone IV, 30% in Zone III and the remaining in Zone II.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the other news covered in the article?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Coal-based power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Over the years, the share of coal in the total primary energy mix has increased from about 42% in 2009-10 to 45.56% in 2020-21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 More than 72% of the electricity generated in the country is coal-fired (including lignite).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Landless tribal households in northeast India: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 report, around 59% of rural households in northeast India have no land.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAround 60% of India prone to earthquakes\u201d published in Down To Earth on 23rd December 2022 What is the News? The Union minister for science and technology has informed Lok Sabha that around 59% of the landmass of India (covering all states) is prone to earthquakes of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/around-60-of-india-prone-to-earthquakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around 60% of India prone to earthquakes<\/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":[1566,4182,11209,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-219747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-geography-in-news","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219747","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=219747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}