To enable earthquake resistant construction, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Building Materials Technology Promotion Council (BMPTC) have come out with Earthquake Hazard Zoning Maps.
The colour coded maps easily convey location in five different Zones of earthquake intensity which helps in planning for disaster resistant construction with necessary technical assistance. BMPTC of the Ministry of HUPA has prepared these maps at the behest of NDMA.
The maps would be of significant help to architects, engineers, land use planners, insurance agencies and those involved in disaster mitigation and emergency planning and management.
These maps were released here today by the Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation M.Venkaiah Naidu.
The Urban Development Minister urged to ensure digitization of these maps at the earliest so that they could be used by the public. He also suggested evolving Mobile App based on these maps.
According to Sailesh Agarwal, Executive Director of BMPTC, out of the 304 million households in the country, about 95 per cent are vulnerable to earthquakes in different degree.
BMPTC prepared the maps using the data available with the Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, Meteorological Department and Census of India.
The additional features of these maps include housing and population data, railway lines, expressways and highways, rivers, waterbodies, geological fault lines etc.
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