Earthquake Alert! Experts Warn that a High Magnitude Earthquake will hit these Zones in India Anytime

Following ten low and moderate tremors recorded in Delhi-NCR within a month, experts warn of a powerful earthquake to hit India.

"We cannot predict time, place or exact scale, but do believe that there is a consistent seismic activity going around in the NCR region and can trigger in a major earthquake in Delhi," said Dr. Kalachand Sain, Chief of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.

Delhi-NCR is on a high alert, especially after the twin tremors which shook Delhi on Friday. All the different zones in the National Capital Region are asked to stay alert.

"Most of these earthquakes were of low magnitude measuring from 2.3 to 4.5. However, a series of such earthquakes ostensibly warn of a major earthquake to hit Delhi in coming days. One of the reasons for increasing numbers of tremors hitting Delhi is that the local fault system here is quite active. Such fault systems around Delhi are capable of producing an earthquake of magnitude around 6 to 6.5," said Dr. A K Shukla, former Head of Earthquake Risk Evaluation Centre at the Indian Metrology Department.

Professor Chandon Ghose, an expert in earthquake engineering says that a scale of 6.0 is expected to hit the zone and also predicts that various buildings would be “razed to dust”.

"Everyone knows that Delhi-NCR falls under seismic zone-4, and it's prone to tremors but still most of the builders do not conform to the norms of BIS. There is a nexus between architects and builders which somehow compromise the stringent earthquake (resistant) codes. So, on any given day, if an earthquake of higher magnitude strikes here, the consequences would be grievous," he added.