New Delhi: The National Center for Seismology (NCS) on Monday (March 31) issued a statement, contradicting predictions of an individual about an earthquake allegedly hitting Delhi and Nepal.
“It is found today that the forecast of occurrence of earthquake in Delhi and Nepal by Mr. Vikas Kumar made on his own having no approval from National Centre for Seismology (NCS), Ministry of Earth Sciences. Mr. Vikash Kumar has also forecasted in past on his own despite repeated request and suggestions to him not to indulge in such baseless propagation of news to generate public panic,” said the NCS director Dr. O.P. Mishra in the statement.
The NCS, which also posted about the issue on X, said that occurrence of earthquake in reality cannot be predicated with respect to time of occurrence and location (latitude, longitude, source depth) and size (Magnitude) of earthquakes with present state of knowledge and available state-of-the-art of technology.
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— National Center for Seismology (@NCS_Earthquake) March 31, 2025
“Intricate processes of earthquake generation and physics involved into it are not well understood till date to reach the level of forecasting of earthquake. Whatever Mr. Vikas Kumar is making on his own without any scientific base!” Mishra added.
“There is no meaning of 20 degree and 45 degree in his notice as it does not indicate whether the given value is longitude or Latitude, it is the self issued notice about the occurrence of the earthquake by Mr. Vikas Kumar for which NCS-MoES has neither consented nor agreed,” Mishra added.
On March 28, the NCS had reported that a powerful M7.5 earthquake struck central Myanmar, with an M7.0 aftershock within 15 minutes, and nearly 25 lower magnitude quakes followed. The epicentre was located just 16 kilometres from the city of Sagaing, and approximately 250 kilometres from the capital, Naypyidaw.
India has sent relief materials to earthquake-hit Myanmar under Operation Brahma.
