Why India's quake detectors are in coma since 8 months

May 13, 2015 02:23

If an earthquake were to hit India right now, let alone early warnings, scientists may even struggle to evaluate its scale and characteristics and also predict aftershocks.

The country's network of "ground-motion" detectors, the backbone of quake monitoring, has not been working for nearly eight months now due to a bureaucratic bottleneck, putting millions of lives at risk.

As the Nepal quake rippled across most of India, top geologists logged in to a designated website for data to analyse the event.

When they failed to find any data on the 7.9-magintude quake that set off in Lamjung, Nepal, they found that strong-motion detectors were lying idle.

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