AIMS to organise seminar on feasibility of bamboo as quake proof material for construction
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 31 2022:
The Apunba Imagi Machasing (AIMS) is organising a 2-day International Seminar on "Bamboo Plantation, Hardening & Bamboo as Earthquake Proof materials for Construction" from November 7 to 8 at Hotel Classic Grande, Imphal East.
The seminar will be jointly organised with Manipur State Bamboo Mission, Government of Manipur, Manipur University, Canchipur, CSIR-NEIST, Lamphelpat, said a statement AIMS issued today.
The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) asserts that Northeast India is highly vulnerable to earthquakes as geo-morphologically, this region falls under the Seismic Hazard Zone V, the highest in the seismic map of India.
In the last 100 years, the region has experienced 18 large earthquakes (M>7).This includes the great earthquakes of Shillong (1897) and the Assam-Tibet border (1950), both with M=8.7, it said.