India will add one hundred more earthquake observatories by 2026, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh mentioned on Saturday.
Singh mentioned that India is going to have 35 more earthquake observatories by the finish of this year.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Joint Scientific Assembly of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) – International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI), he mentioned the Indian subcontinent is regarded as one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions in terms of earthquakes, landslides, cyclones, floods, and tsunamis and the government is taking all essential measures to meet these challenges.
“India is going to have 35 more earthquake observatories by the end of this year and 100 more such observatories in the next five years,” the Union minister mentioned.
He mentioned in the last six-and-a-half decades considering that Independence, the nation had only 115 earthquake observatories but now with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm, there is going to be a quantum leap in the quantity of earthquake observatories in the nation.
Singh mentioned the value of geology as a recognised science of the composition, structure and processes, which govern our planet, has in all probability reached its zenith today as human society grapples with challenges at numerous levels of interactions with the Mother Earth.
The minister expressed hope that the Joint Scientific Assembly of IAGA-IASPEI will act as a catalyst in bringing on board a higher quantity of researchers and practitioners from a international neighborhood to work on difficulties connected to rendering science to society.
He mentioned it is a fitting atmosphere for the two scientific communities to come with each other to forward analysis in their niche as nicely as pursue new avenues of cross-disciplinary investigations.
The minister mentioned the linkage involving the deep earth structure and geomagnetism, and the function of fluids in earthquake nucleation are a handful of examples to emphasise the significance of the Joint Scientific Assembly of these two associations to market cross-disciplinary analysis.
The IAGA and IASPEI have come with each other to hold a joint assembly in 2021, which is becoming hosted by the CSIR-NGRI with the assistance of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
He impressed upon India’s commitment to assistance several projects of earth method science to quantify the seismic hazard for improved land use and urban organizing and making disaster-resilient infrastructures for minimizing dangers and in the end paving way to sustainable development.