In the last few years, J&K has witnessed many low intensity earthquakes at various places with no major damage reported or loss of life.

It is good that the region despite falling in the critical seismic zone has not seen devastation on account of a major tremor after the 2005 earthquake which led to loss of hundreds of lives in PoK, Afghanistan and parts of Kashmir. As observed in the recent floods and landslides in Jammu region, where the concerned authorities were seen struggling to reach out to the public affected by the calamity, it becomes necessary that the J&K disaster management authority and other related agencies should start preparing for a catastrophe emerging out of a high intensity earthquake because no one can predict that when the region will see the next bigger earthquak

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