Under an on-going five-year project on ‘Hazard assessment for earthquakes and tsunamis’, scientists from the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) are characterising earthquake sources and monitoring seismic activity in the Himalayan region as well as in the sub-continent…
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28 January 2016
HYDERABAD: Earthquakes by themselves do not kill anyone but lack of necessary design component in a structure does. A standing proof of the claim are the high-rise buildings in Tokyo that could withstand earthquakes of magnitude 8 on the Richter scale. Hyderabad-based
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, for the first time ever, came up with a time history of ground motion amplifications and design spectra that would help civil engineers construct earthquake-resistant structures…
06 October 2015
CHENNAI: In a huge relief to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), a recent study by the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) has concluded that there was no evidence to prove the existence of a submerged volcano off the Puducherry coast, which could have posed a danger to nuclear establishments at Kalpakkam, some 80 km from here.
“The literature review, existing satellite and ship-borne bathymetric and geophysical data do not lend any credible evidence for the presence of submarine volcano,” the 110-page ‘Status report on an unconfirmed submarine volcano off Pondicherry coast’ by Hyderabad-based NGRI stated….
19 September 2015
HYDERABAD: The recent spate of moderate to heavy rains in the city may have boosted the groundwater levels by at least half a metre, but a new report reveals that the water thus recharged is highly contaminated with fluorides, nitrates and large quantities of iron.
A report on the state’s groundwater profile by the Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) says harmful chemicals are present in the water beyond the permissible limits. “It is bad news for the people as the report mentions a rise in the nitrate levels in the water. The basic source of nitrates in water sources is from sewerage, which seeps from improperly built septic tanks,” Dr Shakeel Ahmed, chief scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), told TOI…..
19 September 2015
16 January 2013
HYDERABAD: Dr. Parijat Roy, INSPIRE faculty, Geochemistry Division, CSIR-NGRI received the ISCA Young Scientist Award for 2012-13 in the Earth System Sciences category.
He received the award during the Indian Science Congress held at Kolkata recently……
01 January 2013
A ‘mega earthquake’ is likely to strike the Himalayas this century, causing catastrophic landslides and floods and killing more than 40,000 people, Indian and US geologists have warned.
Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute of India and Stanford University, United States, analysed the fault that separates the Asian and Indian continental plates….
09 December 2012
Hyderabad: There is an active fault beneath the Tehri dam that enhances the earthquake risk, scientists of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here have reported. The Tehri dam is located near Tehri town in Uttarakhand in the Kumaon-Garhwal Himalayas region….