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New Delhi. Earthquake tremors were felt in the Nicobar Islands region of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands on Monday morning. According to the report of the National Center for Seismology, the tremors were felt at around 5.7 in the morning. The intensity of this earthquake has been measured at 5.0 on the Richter scale. However, no damage has been confirmed so far.
The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has scared the whole world. After the death of about 50 thousand people, people are worried about the earthquake. Many states of India also come in the most affected area of earthquake. The Bureau of Indian Standards has divided the country into five different earthquake zones. The areas falling in the fifth zone are considered the most dangerous and active. The states falling in this zone are most prone to devastation.
Many states included in the fifth zone
The least risk is in the first zone. The fifth zone includes Jammu and Kashmir, western part of Himachal, Kutch of Gujarat, eastern region of Uttarakhand, region of northern Bihar, all the northeastern states of India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and some parts of Tamil Nadu come in the second zone.
11 percent of the country’s land is in the fifth zone
The fourth zone includes Ladakh, some areas of Himachal and Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, northern areas of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and a small part of West Bengal, Gujarat, some parts of Maharashtra near the west coast and some areas of western Rajasthan. . Please tell that 11 percent of the total land of the country comes in the fifth zone. On the other hand, 18 percent of the land comes in the fourth zone, 30 percent in the third and second zones.
