India's earthquake risk is categorized into different seismic zones. Zone II, representing low-risk areas, experiences minimal seismic activity. Zone III, a moderate-risk zone, includes cities ...

The landscape of India has been divided into different earthquake zones based on the Modified Mercalli (MM) scale. The low-intensity zone that constitutes around 40.93% of the country falls in ...

Hyderabad: India will soon have a new map of earthquake hazard zones, keeping up with the fast-developing infrastructure needs of the country, and will return from the current five-zone to a six ...

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 ...