According to a report, ‘Earthquake hazard zoning maps’, by the Building Materials Technology Promotion Council (BMPTC), as many as 95% households in the country are vulnerable to earthquakes.

Hyderabad: India will soon have a new map of earthquake hazard zones, keeping up with the fast-developing infrastructure ...

efforts in releasing the Seismic Zoning Map of India. This map categories regions into risk zones II through V, determined by their respective risk levels. BIS Guidelines for Earthquake-Resistant ...

Over a week after Myanmar’s catastrophic earthquake, casualty numbers are still climbing. Meanwhile, across India, mild ...

A series of devastating earthquakes across Asia—including a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake in Myanmar—has reignited urgent ...