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Manipur earthquake another wake-up call for India
Nagaland Post | Agencies | New Delhi, Jan 11
The tremor that shook the North Eastern states on January 4 must be treated as an urgent wake-up call. The earthquake, which had its epicentre at Tamenglong in Manipur, is the 20th such quake of magnitude 6 or higher on the Richter Scale to hit the region in the past century or so.
The Northeast had hardly any built-up modern infrastructure before the Independence; Today it has a network of roads, bridges, railways, airports, etc. It has more than a million residential and commercial buildings, but many of those don’t comply with the specifications of earthquake-resistant designs and processes.
The recent earthquake in Manipur has once again demonstrated that even many of the newly constructed buildings are not able to withstand the 6.7 quake. So the impact of an 8+ on the Richter Scale tremor on such and other older structures would be devastating.
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