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Union Minister of State Independent Charge Science Technology Minister of State Independent Charge Earth Sciences MoS PMO Personnel Public Grievances Pensions Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh today said 35 new SeismologicalObservatories shall be commissioned and will start functioning by December 2021 as installation is already in progress. In a statement laid on the table of the Lok Sabha he said the strength of National Seismological Network NSN will increase to 150 by December 2021.It is also planned to strengthen the National Seismological Network NSN further by adding 100 seismic stations in the next 5 years to increase the detection capability of earthquake up to M2.5 throughout the country.National Centre for Seismology under Ministry of Earth Sciences is the nodal agency of Government of India GoI for monitoring and to study earthquakesin and around the country. For this purpose NCS maintains a National Seismological Network NSN consisting of 115 observatories spread across the country.The network is capable of recording any event of M2.5 and above in and around Delhi M3.0 and above for NE region M3.5 and above in Peninsular and extra-peninsular region M4.0 and above in Andaman region and M4.5 and above in border regions. In order to spatially densify the gap areas and to improve the magnitude detection threshold down to 3.0 in the country.
