Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
Chinese officials fearing damage from a devastating earthquake are to spend 544 million yuan (HK$506 million) on strengthening buildings in Beijing, the China Daily reported yesterday. The north is undergoing heavy seismic activity, and seismologists have warned a damaging earthquake of five or higher on the Richter scale could strike …
The first geoscientific data centre of the country, which was inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta today will serve as the largest repository of knowledge on earth sciences of three major continents of the world - Asia, Australia and Africa.
The majestic slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The burning sands of the Ethiopian plateau. The rugged cliffs of the African Rift Valley where Homa sapiens early ancestors thrived millions of years ago. The Comoro Islands where the most ancient of fishes, the coelacanth,is found. All these and many other striking geological …
Downtown and West Los Angeles are moving toward the San Gabriel Mountains and the metropolitan area in between will be squeezed slowly over the next several thousand years, according to researchers using precise satellite surveying techniques at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. The measurements suggest that new mountains may …
AFTER two decades of pitched intellectual battle over when people first inhabited the American continent, archaeologists have reached a peace treaty of sorts, acknowledging the victory of the Monte Verde excavators. Monte Verde is on the east of Peurto Montt seaport in southern Chile. It is at this site where …
Scientists may soon explain the mys-terious behaviour of some icebergs. They have discovered a submerged "ice foot" extending more than 50 metres (m) out to sea from the wall of a glacier. This could explain why icebergs sometimes suddenly come up to the ocean surface in unexpec-ted places. Researchers suspect …
High intensity earthquakes may rock some parts of northeastern India between 2030 and 2040, say scientists at the University of Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh. They have analysed seismicity data of the region for the last 200 years. The researchers say that the Arakan Yoma and Naga thrust belt in Northeast India …
NEARLY two kilometres inside the surface of the Pacific Ocean, molten magma from the Earth's mantle wells up. This process is taking place along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, which is pushing even the Pacific plate apart from the Juan de Fuca plate. The rate at which the plate is …
A GIANT meteorite struck the northern edge of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico 65 million years ago. The collision caused a crater 192 kilometres (km) wide and wiped out nearly half the world's species, including the dinosaurs. Recently, scientists have discovered that the impact shattered the edge of the continent, …
Macroseismic and aftershock studies reveal a major seismic fault in Madhya Pradesh THE analysis of last year's Jabalpur earthquake has shown a "deep-rooted" seismogenic fault" located within the Narmada south fault zone, says J R Katyal, deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India (GSI). The fault has been traced …
The ocean covered about half the surface area of other continents seventy million years ago. However, Australia managed to stay dry. How did it happen? Geophysicist Michael Gurnis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA, may have the answer. During this period, Australia was 250 metres higher than …
Mumbai is prone to earthquakes, says V Subramanyam, retired IIT professor of earth sciences. It is quite evident from the recent earthquake that hit the Thane-Khargar belt in Maharashtra. According to Subramanyam, the city and the surrounding region is situated on more than ten fault planes. Three major faults pass …
fifty five million years ago, one trillion tonnes of methane suddenly burst out of the ocean, shooting up the temperatures and killing thousands of species in the ocean depths. The first evidence of this prehistoric event was unearthed by researchers in 1991. But they were not sure of the causes …
it is fascinating to find colourful hot springs and boiling mud ponds in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming, usa. However, there are several mind-boggling facts that people do not know. Nearly seven kilometres (km) beneath the park's surface, there are gigantic globs of partly melted rock and pressurised gas. This may …
The Ministry of science and technology has launched an ambitious project to provide advance information on earthquakes. The project will also help in mapping petroleum sources. The National Geophysical Research Institute's (NGRI's) project has reached its trial stage. It is using a Param super computer to crunch data from sensors …
Along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, more than a mile and a half below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, molten magma from the Earth's mantle wells up, pushing the Pacific plate apart from the Juan de Fuca plate at roughly the rate a human fingernail grows, thus creating cracks …
The low-intensity earthquake that hit the Thane Khargar belt on Sunday came as no surprise to scientsis. They say that since Mumbai is riddled with seismological faults, it is prone to earthquake. "The city and its surrounding region is situated on more than ten fault plants." says V. Subramanyam, retired …
The Karnataka government would come out with a comprehensive Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Bill based on the National Forest Policy evolved by the Centre after incorporating suggestions made by various members of the legislature. Scientists predict an earthquake in Assam of a magnitude greater than eight on the Richter Scale any …
