{"id":8993,"date":"2020-07-15T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2020-07-15T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:58:04","slug":"earthquake-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/earthquake-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: Geography:\u00a0Salient features of\u00a0world\u2019s physical geography.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 A geologist assigned to make a preliminary study on the frequent tremors said,<strong> Mizoram\u2019s zone of \u201cscary\u201d earthquakes is caught between two subterranean faults.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mizoram experienced at least eight moderate earthquakes between June 21 and July 9. The tremors ranged from 4.2 to 5.5 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legacyias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-16.png\" alt=\"Mizoram quake zone - Legacy IAS Academy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The State\u2019s Champhai district and adjoining areas could experience aftershocks for several months but the people there have nothing to worry if their magnitude does not measure above 5 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The epicentre of most of these quakes was beneath Champhai district bordering Myanmar, including the last one of magnitude 4.3 and about 10 kilometres deep. A few were beneath the adjoining Saitual and Serchhip districts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d18x2uyjeekruj.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cmf.jpg\" alt=\"Churachandpur Mao Fault' in Mizoram \u2013 Civilsdaily\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Earthquakes have happened and will happen in that part of Mizoram because it is caught between two geological faults. These are the Churachandpur Mao Fault and the Mat Fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Faults are discontinuities or cracks that are the result of differential motion within the earth\u2019s crust. Vertical or lateral slippage of the crust along the faults causes an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Churachandpur Mao Fault is named after two places in Manipur and runs north-south into Myanmar along the border of Champhai. The Mat Fault runs northwest-southeast across Mizoram, beneath river Mat near Serchhip.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Indian seismic zones:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Earthquake-prone areas of India have been identified on the basis of 3 factors- scientific inputs related to seismicity, earthquakes occurred in the past &amp; tectonic setup of the region<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Based on these conditions, the Bureau of Indian Standards divided the country into four seismic zones, viz. Zone II, III, IV and V.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Zone II: It is a low intensity zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Zone III: It is the moderate-intensity zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Zone IV: It is a severe intensity zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Zone V: It is a very severe intensity zone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: Geography:\u00a0Salient features of\u00a0world\u2019s physical geography.\u00a0 Why in news? \u2022 A geologist assigned to make a preliminary study on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}