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Landslide-subsidence zone
January 12 , 2023
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- The tiny town of Joshimath in Uttarakhand is on edge with 610 of a total of 4,500 buildings developing cracks.
- Authorities have declared it a landslide-subsidence zone.
- It is a gradual settling or sudden sinking of the Earth’s surface due to removal or displacement of subsurface earth materials.
- Subsidence is most often caused by the removal of water, oil, natural gas, or mineral resources out of the ground by pumping, fracking, or mining activities.
- As per the 1976 Mishra committee report, Joshimath is built on a fault plane.
- Joshimath is built on a landslide material that means thousands of years ago.
- Joshimath falls on the route to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib.
- It is on a high-risk seismic 'Zone-V'.
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