Lok Sabha Question No. 4407 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-14
Subject: Seismic Microzonation
Ministry: EARTH SCIENCES
Asked by: KIRRON KHER

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 4407

## TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016

## SEISMIC MICROZONATION

## 4407. SHRIMATI KIRRON KHER:

Will the Minister of EARTH SCIENCES be pleased to state:

- (a) the names of the cities where Government proposes to carry out seismic microzonation;
- (b)
- (c)
- the details of criteria fixed for selection of such cities; and
- the funds likely to be spent in this regard?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES (SHRI Y. S. CHOWDARY)

- (a) National Centre for Seismology (NCS) has a project of seismic microzonation of thirty cities. A list of such cities is attached in AnnexureI.
- (b) Earthquake - prone areas of the country have been identified on the basis of scientific inputs relating to seismicity, earthquakes occurred in the past and tectonic setup of the region. Based on these inputs, Bureau of Indian Standards  [IS  1893  (Part  I):2002],  has  grouped  the  country  into  four seismic zones, viz. Zone II, III, IV and V. Of these, Zone V is seismically the most  active  region,  while  zone  II  is  the  least.  These  cities  are  selected based on criteria of their location in seismic zone V, IV or III as per Bureau of Indian Standard publication [IS 1983 (Part I):2002] and having population
- more than half a million.
- (c) Approximately  Rs  90  (ninety)  crores  are  estimated  to  be  spent  for  this work.

## List of cities planned for Seismic Microzonation

|   Sr.No. | City             | State           | Seismic zone      |
|----------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|        1 | Srinagar         | Jammu & Kashmir | V, IV             |
|        2 | Patna            | Bihar           | IV, III           |
|        3 | Meerut           | Uttar Pradesh   | IV                |
|        4 | Jammu            | Jammu & Kashmir | IV                |
|        5 | Amritsar         | Punjab          | IV                |
|        6 | Jallandhar       | Punjab          | IV                |
|        7 | Bhavnagar        | Gujarat         | III               |
|        8 | Surat            | Gujarat         | III               |
|        9 | Bhiwandi         | Maharashtra     | III               |
|       10 | Nashik           | Maharashtra     | III               |
|       11 | Pune             | Maharashtra     | IV, III           |
|       12 | Bhubaneshwar     | Orissa          | III               |
|       13 | Cuttack          | Orissa          | III, II           |
|       14 | Chennai          | Tamil Nadu      | III               |
|       15 | Kolkata          | West Bengal     | III, [IV(border)] |
|       16 | Vadodara         | Gujarat         | III               |
|       17 | Coimbatore       | Tamilnadu       | III, II           |
|       18 | Agra             | Uttar Pradesh   | III               |
|       19 | Varanasi         | Uttar Pradesh   | III               |
|       20 | Bareilly         | Uttar Pradesh   | III               |
|       21 | Lucknow          | Uttar Pradesh   | III               |
|       22 | Kanpur           | Uttar Pradesh   | III               |
|       23 | Indore           | Madhya Pradesh  | III, II           |
|       24 | Vijayawada       | Andhra Pradesh  | III               |
|       25 | Dhanbad          | Jharkhand       | III               |
|       26 | Mangalore        | Karnataka       | III               |
|       27 | Kochi            | Kerala          | III               |
|       28 | Kozhikode        | Kerala          | III               |
|       29 | Thiruvanathpuram | Kerala          | III               |
|       30 | Asansol          | West Bengal     | III               |

## Annexure-I