50 districts in #UttarPradesh are prone to earthquake

Lucknow: In an alarming disclosure, more than 50 districts in Uttar Pradesh, out of the total 75, have been found to be quake-prone. Well-known seismic expert and former director of Geological Survey of India (GSI) V. K. Joshi told reporters that growing urbanisation in Uttar Pradesh could result in massive damage to life and property in future. According to Dr Joshi, the districts falling in Zone-IV are Meerut, Gonda, Baghpat, Saharanpur, Bijnore, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Amroha, Rampur, Moradabad, Bulandshahr, Shravasti, Balrampur, Siddhartha Nagar, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, and parts of Pilibhit, Muzaffarnagar, Shahjahanpur, Lakhimpur, Bahraich, Mathura, Aligarh, Badaun, Bareilly, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Deoria and Ballia.