Thematic Cluster : Geological Disasters
Thematic Session : Earthquake
Chairperson : Dr. D.K. Paul
Facilitator(s) : Dr. Chandan Ghosh, Mr. Amir Ali Khan

Abstracts-A1, Abstracts-A2, Abstracts-A3, Abstracts-A4, Abstracts-A5

SNo.Title of the AbstractAuthor(s)
A-1: Earthquake resistant construction
A-1-SOAEarthquake resistant design & construction practices in India Yogendra Singh, Ratnesh Kumar, Putul Haldar
A-1-1Construction Techniques: A Case Study of Earthquake Resistant Construction in State of Uttaranchal Girish Chandra Joshi
A-1-2Proposed Rapid Visual Screening Procedure for Seismic Evaluation of RC Frame Buildings in India Keya Mitra, BESU, Sudhir K Jain, Mehul R Shah
A-1-3Constructional Practices, Climate Change and Disasters – Some instances from Kashmir G. M. Dar
A-1-4Earthquake Safety Elements in Traditional Koti Banal Architecture of Uttarakhand, India Piyoosh Rautela, Girish Chandra Joshi
A-1-5Requirements of Building Materials for Earthquake Resistant Building Shailesh Kr. Agrawal, J.K. Prasad
A-1-6Managing with Vulnerable Built-infrastructures in India Chandan Ghosh, Amir Ali Khan, S. Yousuf
A-1-7Traditional Earthquake Safe Housing Practices of North East India Amir Ali Khan, Chandan Ghosh
A-2: Seismic Microzonation
A-2-SOASeismic microzonation principles and techniquesT.G. Sitharam
A-2-1Tectonic geomorphology as a tool for Paleoseismic studies: A Case Study of Alaknanda valley, Uttarakhand Himalaya, India S. P. Sati, Naresh Rana, Devender Kumar, D. V. Reddy
A-2-2Current Seismic hazard scenario in Garhwal-Kumaun Himalayas Ajay Paul
A-2-3Observation of earth's free oscillations in Gujarat Superconducting Gravimeter at MPGO site Badargadh in Kachchh Arun Gupta, Rashmi Pradhan, Srichand Prajapati, Mukesh Chauhan, B.K. Rastogi
A-2-4Seismic risk in hilly regionsD.S. Narsimha, Yogendra Singh & M. L. Sharma
A-2-5Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Mussoorie and Josimath, Uttarakhand (India) Girish Chandra Joshi, Piyoosh Rautela & Bhupendra Bhaisora
A-2-6Earthquake risk assessment and mapping in part of Central Alborz, Iran bases on RS & GIS techniques M. Sharifikia, C. S. Dubey
A-2-7Seismic hazard assessment based on attenuation relationship for Tamil Nadu State, India S. Rajarathnam, G. P. Ganapathy, R. Muthukumar
A-2-8Importance of seismic microzonation in urban safety – a case study Aftab Alam Khan
A-2-9Seismic hazard Microzonation of Guwahati cityT. Rahman
A-2-10Microzonation and Disaster Risk Mitigation Studies of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mahmut BAS, Hikmet KARAOGLU, Ahmet Emre BASMACI
A-2-11Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Chandigarh City R. Dharmaraju, S. Karthikeyan, VVGST Ramakrishna, C. Ghosh
A-2-12Application of SHAKE for 1-D Soil Response Analysis in one borehole location at Shalimar Bagh, in NCT Delhi H S Mandal, Ajeet K. Pande
A-3: Retrofitting of lifeline structures
A-3-SOARetrofitting of structuresAmlan Sengupta,
A-3-1Post Kashmir earthquake reconstruction & resettlement experience Najmi Kanji, Tinni Sawhney
A-3-2Building capacity in Delhi to seismically retrofit existing lifeline building JE Rodgers, H Kumar & LT Tobin
A-3-3Concrete Jacketing with Supplemental Damping for Seismic Retrofit of a Non-Ductile Concrete Building Sandeep Donald Shah
A-4: Earthquake forecasting
A-4-SOARecent developments in earthquake forecastingDevesh Walia
A-4-1Analysis of temporal heterogeneity in the magnitude of completeness & its uncertainty for a North East India region Ranjit Das
A-4-2
Seismic Vulnerability of National Capital Region Delhi from a Large Magnitude Earthquake in NW Himalayas Arun Bapat
A-4-3Foreshock clustering and precursory changes in source parameters for the Kachchh Earthquakes Gujarat, India Sandeep Kumar Aggarwal, BK Rastogi, B. Sairam
A-4-4The Potential of an Earthquake Early Warning System of Delhi Region H. R. Wason
A-4-5Possibilities of Earthquake Prediction using Ground and Satellite Techniques Shourabh Bhattacharya and A. K. Gwal, Bhopal
A-4-6Static coseismic ground movement of the 26th December 2004 earthquakes-observation in Andaman area and inferences on seismic hazard on active fault traces Sumit Kumar Ray, Anshuman Acharyya
A-4-7Seismic Hazard Assessment of Kumaon Himalayan Region using Fractal dimension of the part earthquake sequence P. N. S. Roy, S. K. Mondal
A-4-8Perception of Earthquake Hazard and Risk in Garhwal Himalaya Uttarakhand, India M. M. Semwal, S. P. Sati
A-4-9Unnatural earthquake prediction and animal behaviour Bivas Bhattacharya
A-4-10Pseudo-seismic tunneling vis-à-vis earthquake precursor Aftab Alam Khan
A-4-11Seismic-hydrological studies for limitation of negative earthquake consequences and for wider use of positive ones Margarita Matova, Georgi Frangov, Plamen Ivanov
A-4-12Radon Variation in Soil Environment as Earthquake Precursor in and around Shillong Plateau Devesh Walia, D. Maibam, Y. Sharma, A. Saxena
A-4-13Response time for earthquake preparedness from seismic alert system in Shillong and Guwahati A.C. Lyngdoh, Devesh Walia, M. Taid
A-5: Post earthquake & Tsunami reconstruction
A-5 SOATsunami Reconstruction and CBDRR KM. Parivelan, Chennai
A-5-1The Significance of Networking in Tsunami Recovery Suresh Mariaselvam
A-5-2Tsunami – A Malady – Remedy Analysis in Agriculture B. Shanmugasundaram, K. A. Ponnusamy
A-5-3Post-Disaster Reconstruction Challenges: Lessons from Gujarat Sudhir Kumar
A-5-4Earthquake recovery In context of UttarkashiJoshi S.,  Joshi P.C.
A-5-5Whether Disaster management due to earthquake is appropriate in India as per present practice? T. Rahman, U. Kumar
A-5-6Post-Tsunami Effect and ChildrenS. JERALD
A-5-7Disaster Management Status in J & K, IndiaMir Ghulam Hassan
A-5-8Challenges in Tsunami Response: Shelter, Gender & HIV AIDS Harikrishna Nibanupudi
A-5-9Approaches to integrate gender in the Tsunami Disaster Response: Experiences from Tamil Nadu Chaman Pincha
A-5-10Post-tsunami Agriculture Livelihood Restoration – A district-level coordination effort Chandra Mohan
A-5-11Negotiating Rehabilitation in a Tsunami Affected Village Kanchan Gandhi
A-5-12Public Participation on Emerging Earthquake Risk by the Development of Hydropower Projects: A Case Study of the Tribal Areas of Himachal Pradesh V. B. Negi
A-5-13Building Community Organisations for effective Disaster Recovery Post Tsunami Experiences of DHAN Foundation J. Saravanan
A-5-14Involving Youth in Documenting Tsunami Reconstruction Gopal Kumar Jain
A-5-15Education and Training in Earthquake Engineering in India D. K. Maharaj
A-5-16Development of a Himalayan Region for Earthquake Risk Reduction Ila Gupta, R Shankar