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Demarcating the seismic zones of India, suggest suitable interventions required in most sensitive seismic zones for sustainable human settlements.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Contemporary Issues

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India's zoning map carries four classes, II to V. Zone V, about a ninth of the area, covers Kachchh, the Northeast east of north Bengal, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, north Bihar and the high Himalaya of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Zone IV, roughly a fifth, takes in the Siwalik and foothill…

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  • The zones, in brief
  • Microzonation as a development-control instrument
  • Reaching the construction that codes cannot
  • Building on what the region already knew
  • Land, density and lifelines
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