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"Changing
India: Website on South Asian Temblors",
New Publications, Seismological Research Letters
(SRL), Vol. 74, No. 6, pp. 827,
2003.
The Amateur Seismic
Centre (http://www.asc-india.org/) was launched in June 2000
with the main objective of providing web users with information on
earthquakes in South Asia, primarily in India. The website is run
independently and since its launch been reporting timely information
about recent earthquakes in India, including the M 7.6 Bhuj
earthquake in early 2001. The site also includes a collection of
historical intensity maps for major earthquakes since the early
1800's. These maps have been created using the GMT software. Data
for these maps were acquired from official macroseismic reports as
well as contemporary press sources.
Another part of this
site provides information about seismic activity in each of India's
28 states, listing the earthquake history for each administrative
region, the largest instrumented earthquake, significant historical
earthquakes, and both the GSHAP Hazard and Indian Seismic Zones. The
"Great Quakes" section provides an interactive map which displays
most of the significant earthquake that have struck the Indian
subcontinent. Some of the largest and the most devastating
earthquake, such as Assam (1897) and Bihar (1934) have special pages
dedicated to themselves, along with links to intensity maps and in
some case, photographs or illustrations
The Web site provides
maps on the seismicity and seismic hazard of India as well as a map
of focal mechanisms of significant earthquakes since 1990. Other
information includes links to the latest in forensic seismology,
focal mechanisms, and Earth Science
organisations in South Asia. Though no actually seismic data such as
waveforms or strong motion records from India are available, the
Amateur Seismic Centre provides information about the latest
developments related to earthquakes in the subcontinent, including
e-mail alerts when there is an event above magnitude 4.5 in the
region.
*Webmaster's
Note!
Certain sections of this website mentioned above have changed or no
longer exist since the above review was published in the
Nov-Dec 2003 issue of SRL. |
