Institute of Seismological Research

Short description: Earthquake research centre in Gandhinagar, India

Institute of Seismological ResearchEstablished| 2003

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Director-General| Sumer Chopra
Location|

Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 23°09′34.085″N 72°40′4.606″E﻿ / ﻿23.15946806°N 72.66794611°E﻿ / 23.15946806; 72.66794611
Website| isr.gujarat.gov.in

Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) is a earthquake engineering and research center in Gandhinagar, India . In the aftermath of 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the institute was established by the Department of Science and Technology of Government of Gujarat in 2003.[1]

## History

In 2003, Dr. J. G. Negi formulated the framework for Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) and established the centre with the funding from Asian Development Bank.[2] He resigned in 2004 due to differences arising between him and the state government.[3] Later, Prof. Naveenchandra N. Srivastava was deputed by Gujarat government to lead the institute.[4] Formal research activities were commenced in 2006.[citation needed]

ISR is the nodal agency in the western state of Gujarat to deploy and maintain a sub-network of 22 broadband seismograph stations and 40 strong-motion accelerographs.[5] The sub-network is the part of the larger network called Indian National Strong-Motion Instrumentation Network, operated by Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.[5]

## See also

* National Centre for Seismology

## References

1. ↑ Patel, Shirish; Revi, Aromar (2012-07-26) (in en). Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-51808-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=cALgCgAAQBAJ&dq=Institute+of+Seismological+Research+Gandhinagar&pg=PA234.
2. ↑ Mutter, John C. (2015-08-11) (in en). The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4668-7941-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=_GY5BgAAQBAJ&dq=Institute+of+Seismological+Research+Gandhinagar&pg=PA80.
3. ↑ "Gujarat's babus have 'trader's mentality' | Ahmedabad News - Times of India" (in en). 7 Oct 2004. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/gujarats-babus-have-traders-mentality/articleshow/876209.cms.
4. ↑ N, Srivastava, Naveenchandra (2018-05-25) (in en). Emerging Trends in Open Source Geographic Information Systems. IGI Global. ISBN 978-1-5225-5040-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=VWJaDwAAQBAJ&dq=Institute+of+Seismological+Research+Gandhinagar&pg=PA295.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sharma, M. L.; Shrikhande, Manish; Wason, H. R. (2018-06-22) (in en). Advances in Indian Earthquake Engineering and Seismology: Contributions in Honour of Jai Krishna. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-76855-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=o7BhDwAAQBAJ&dq=Institute+of+Seismological+Research+Gandhinagar&pg=PA44.

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