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Earthquake of magnitude 2.9 strikes Nepal
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
An earthquake of magnitude 2.9 struck Nepal on Saturday afternoon, as reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS).
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Telangana: Hyderabad's seismic stability reassured by expert after 5.3 mag
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Dr Prakash Kumar, Director of CSIR-NGRI spoke to ANI and said, "We have got to know that people felt the tremours lightly. They might have felt it very lightly. Hyderabad is not an earthquake-prone area. We see it as a stable region. It is not very severe, but we haven't recorded quake of th
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UN to construct 1000 "earthquake-resilient" houses in Afghanistan's Paktik
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Due to persistent earthquakes in Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided to construct 1,000 "earthquake-resilient" houses for over 8,000 earthquake-stricken people of the Barmal district of Paktika province.
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New technology for retrofitting non-earthquake-resistant buildings can pre
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
The technology called semi-confined unreinforced brick masonry (SC-URBM) can resolve the problem of spread of settlements in earthquake-prone areas with constructions that have been built without following earthquake-preventive building codes.
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SignaGuard and QuakeLogic launch breakthrough structural health monitoring
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [USA], April 13 (ANI/Business Wire India): California based QuakeLogic and SignaGuard (a division of MachineSense) announced today the development of a breakthrough process that combines the proprietary technology of both companies for structural health monitoring in ear
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