Agartala, May 5 (TIWN):Even though Tripura is located in one of the five zones which are prone to earthquakes, the Government has no equipment to monitor earthquakes and seismic microzonation that would identify which places of the State are more vulnerable to earthquakes.

There is no equipment of the State Government other than the equipment installed at metrological department office at Agartala two years back.But the equipment installed  there is highly sophisticated , the department have no qualified man power to handle the equipment.

Given Tripura’s location in high seismic zone, it is essential to procure necessary monitoring equipment as well as seismographs in all districts of the State.
This would not cost much money. The process of seismic microzonation has been already completed for Guwahati and the same process has been initiated in Nagaland too.
However, the process of seismic microzonation is still kept in abeyance in Tripura.
Seismic microzonation would be very helpful in identifying places where high-rise buildings can be constructed and where such constructions would not be advisable.
In the event of any major earthquake in Tripura the state would tremble more than the hills because of the difference in soil textures.
Construction of buildings quite close to each as seen at  Agartala  city today is quite risky because when there is any major earthquake, the buildings would toss against each other which would only multiply the earthquake's destructive power.