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Delhi is sitting on a potential killer temblor, that can pull down like a packof cards the several high-rise buildings dotting the skyline here as the citycomes under highly seismic Zone-4 category.

The Zone indicates that earthquake measuring upto 6.5 on the RichterScale could strike the city and its periphery and this intensity could causesevere damage to the buildings that do not conform to the earthquake

resistant norms.

"Possibility of earthquake in Delhi cannot be ruled out, as it comes underZone-4. And the intensity could go up to 6.5 on the Richter Scale," Director

of Earthquake Risk Evaluation Center of India Meteorological Department AK Shukla told PTI.

However, the Himalayan range, Jammu andKashmir, Northeastern states and Andaman

and Nicobar Islands are the most earthquake

vulnerable areas in the country and could

witness high intensity temblors up to eightmagnitude, Shukla said. These areas comeunder Zone five, he said.

Shukla said the categories of zones have beenfinalised on the basis of previous historical data and the geological

characteristics of the place.

If the previous data is any indication, Delhi has already witnessed six high-intensity quakes between 1720 and 1996. The capital region was struck by

a quake measuring 6.5 on Richter scale on July 15, 1720. This wasfollowed another by severe quake of 6.8 intensity on September one,1803. Another four major quakes were experienced on January 16, 1842

(5.5 intensity), October 10, 1956 (6.7), August, 27 1960 (6.0) and August

15, 1966 (5.8).

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