Time for a shake-up

Scientists suggest local-level mapping as India upgrades its seismic map

Buildings lack safety

Sounding a warning

Home makers

Women of Latur exemplify how people alone can put an end to their misery

The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

Tragedy unfolds in Turkey

Thousands dead, an equal number injured and rendered homeless, besides a burning oil refinery will Turkey ever overcome the aftermath of this …

Earth-shaking intervention

An earthquake rocks El Salvador causing widespread destruction. Deforestation aggravates the situation

Have earthquakes really increased in India due to activation of Almora Fault? Experts weigh in

Increased number of earthquakes in 2023 due to activation of Almora Fault, Union earth sciences minister Kiren Rijiju had told Parliament

Future shocks

Devastating earthquakes are waiting to strike India

In Short

The Japanese archipelago now has double the islands from 1987; here is why

Digitalisation, inclusion of lake and riverine islands and the 2011 Tohoku quake, all could be reasons

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

Soil as seismic radar

Chemical changes in the soil hold clues

South Asia

Six years on, authorities clueless about Fukushima

Abnormally high radiation preventing humans and robots from cleaning the damaged reactors

Nowhere!

Three months after Gujarat was flattened by an earthquake, the state government goes in for a relocation plan to satisfy the builder's lobby

Major past earthquakes in Nepal

Present earthquake the biggest to hit Nepal in 80 years

Agartala's highrises get notice

How climate resilient is Shimla? Not much, shows city’s ground situation

A third of Shimla is at high risk for landslides; more open spaces and green cover needed

Darkness at midnight

A devastating earthquake in the Chamoli region of Uttar Pradesh kills over 100 people, most of them in their sleep

Shaky foundations

Blunder 999

Kerala is trapped by its promise to host Tamil Nadu’s Mullaperiyar dam for a millennium

Long road home: Uttarakhand increasingly declares villages disaster-prone

While many are fighting relocation, those who shift face conflicts with host villages over resources like water and grazing land. Is relocation …

On road to recovery

Nepal has banned new constructions till it formulates a fresh building code. Emerging threat of landslides compounds its troubles

The Northeast's power burden

The centrality of the Northeast to India's ambitious national electrification plan cannot be overstated, since the region will be required to …