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India’s Building Code Has a Blind Spot for a Whole Category of Emissions

Sarah Khan and Sweta Bhushan 13/04/2023

Embodied emissions are released during the material sourcing, construction,...

Badri stands near badly damaged houses after Monday's earthquake hit Cianjur

Disaster in Java: Why Are Shallow Earthquakes More Destructive?

Phil R. Cummins, Mudrik Rahmawan Daryono and Stacey Servito Martin 26/11/2022

Large earthquakes cause widespread damage, but the intensity of...

People gather near a collapsed building after a massive earthquake in Imphal on January 4, 2016. Credit: PTI

No Lessons Learnt From Quakes in India’s Northeast

Dinesh C. Sharma 16/01/2018

Due to the government's negligence, many publicly funded buildings...

The region under threat is built on the world’s largest river delta, and water is everywhere. Widespread poverty, soft sediments and rapidly multiplying infrastructure including bridges like this one near the southern city of Khulna make the region exquisitely vulnerable to earthquakes. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A Giant Quake May Be Lurking Under Bangladesh and Beyond

Kevin Krajick 13/07/2016

Bangladesh and parts of North-Eastern India and Myanmar sit...

A UK Aid worker inspecting a collapsed structure in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake in early 2015. Credit: dfid/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Lessons to India From Chile: ‘Buildings Kill People, Not Earthquakes ‘

Shobhan Saxena 18/09/2015

In the subcontinent, a quake of the intensity that...