How well-equipped is India to study earthquakes?
The Indian Meteorological Deparment has 45 national seismological observatories. There are nine observatories for special studies in north India and three mobile observatories in and around Delhi. Ten observatories in peninsular India were upgraded in 1996-97. A National Seismological Database Centre and a Central Receiving Station have been established in New Delhi to receive, archive and analyse seismic data. The NSDC gets both digital and analog data in real time. Well, almost. In 1999, 12 more seismological observatories were upgraded to analyse broadband digital seismographs. The NSDC is capable of quick event determination and dissemination of information in an operational mode. Its seismology division responds to queries relating to earthquakes. It also develops and manufactures seismological instruments and accessories in the IMD Instrumentation Workshop at New Delhi. Do you think I need to know anything else about earthquakes? That would depend on your curiosity. If you are th
