Seismic Microzonation of Chandigarh Urban Complex

 

A Report on “Seismic Microzonation of Chandigarh Urban Complex”, was released on 18th February 2008 by Shri Pradeep Mehra, Administrator of the Union Territory at Chandigarh. Geological Survey of India has been engaged in pre-disaster management exercise, aiming at mitigating the effects of destructive earthquakes, for the last one decade, and has, so far, completed the studies in eight urban complexes. Recently, a first level assessment of the seismic hazard of the Urban Agglomeration of the Union Territory at Chandigarh was carried out on scale 1:20,000.

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A multi-parametric approach, using inputs from geological, geotechnical, geophysical and seismological database, has been adopted. Various derivative maps have been prepared on the basis of the data obtained from Standard Penetration Test, Electric Resistivity soundings and Hammer Seismic survey, Micro-earthquake/Noise survey.
  

Shear wave velocity map

 

 

 

 
Hazard potential Map of Chandigarh

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