{"id":225806,"date":"2023-02-09T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225806"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:37:58","slug":"quake-up-call-turkiye-syria-impact-magnified-by-poor-construction-india-must-ensure-building-codes-are-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/quake-up-call-turkiye-syria-impact-magnified-by-poor-construction-india-must-ensure-building-codes-are-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"Quake Up Call – Turkiye, Syria impact magnified by poor construction. India must ensure building codes are followed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cQuake Up Call – Turkiye, Syria impact magnified by poor construction. India must ensure building codes are followed\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on 9th February 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster Management.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About earthquake-resistant construction.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck south-central Turkey and Northwest Syria. Poor construction and rampant violation of building code\u00a0<\/strong>is the primary reason for widespread damages in Turkey and Syria.<\/p>\n

Around 59% of India is prone to earthquakes of different magnitudes \u2013 11% in the very high-risk Zone V to 30% in Zone III.\u00a0Hence, earthquake-resistant construction is essential in India to avoid such damage.<\/p>\n

About the earthquake in Turkey<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read more: How are earthquakes measured and how massive is the Turkey one?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About the status of earthquake-resistant construction in India<\/strong><\/h2>\n

India doesn\u2019t have norms for earthquake-resistant construction. As they require 3-4% extra of the total construction cost for residential buildings and 2-3% extra for offices.<\/p>\n

Even though National Building Code (NBC) 2016 has a specific section on earthquake-resistant design and construction. But there\u2019s no law asking for compliance.<\/p>\n

For instance, In Delhi an estimated 90% of buildings are at risk of collapsing in case of a strong earthquake.<\/p>\n

What should be done to ensure earthquake-resistant construction?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Earthquakes can\u2019t be predicted, but measures to minimise loss of lives must be prioritised. This can be done by a)<\/strong>\u00a0There needs to be greater public awareness about NBC guidelines<\/strong> to boost voluntary compliance, b)<\/strong>\u00a0Municipalities should be encouraged to adopt NBC guidelines in their building bye-laws<\/strong>, making them mandatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cQuake Up Call – Turkiye, Syria impact magnified by poor construction. India must ensure building codes are followed\u201d published in The Times of India on 9th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster Management. Relevance: About earthquake-resistant construction. News: Recently, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck south-central… Continue reading Quake Up Call – Turkiye, Syria impact magnified by poor construction. India must ensure building codes are followed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-225806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704936674},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225806","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}