COASTAL ZONES – SEISMIC VULNERABILITY AN ANALYSIS FROM EAST COAST OF INDIA

B. L. Narasayya

Abstract: The paper briefly attempts at a conceptual approach on the reported events of moderate seismic activity from parts of East Coast of India originating from the shallow depths of sea floor in a short span of less than two decades. As a passive continental margin, it is assuring to feel a stable condition for the East Coast. But its Geotectonic critical position in the Bay with Andaman Islands architecture on the east and further east the Indonesian Islands and experience of 2004 Tsunami of devastating nature hitting the Southern East Coast necessitates that the geo technical frame has to be critically studied from the point of view of Active Tectonics and as a mitigation measure appropriate building codes have to be implemented in seismic designs

Keywords: seismic activity, geotectonic critical position, Tsunami, mitigation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0328018