on 25-Nov-2020 (Wed)

“The North East experiences rains each year when the core monsoon zone and the Gangetic plain are in a break period,” Murtugudde added. When it is a break period over the North East, it rains over central India or the core monsoon zone. The rains then shifts to gangetic plain.

The North East has been drying up for a while, especially in the last few decades. During 18 of the last 19 years (2001-2019), North East India has received seasonal rainfall less than normal with an exception of 2007 (110 per cent of normal), according to an IMD report from 2019.

The surface where they slip is known as the fault or fault plane.

During an earthquake, seismic waves are generated in a short span of time after two blocks of earth slip past one another. The waves travel to the surface causing destruction.

They tried to predict the frictional strength — the force required to cause movement along a fault — of phyllosilicates: Minerals in the form of thin plates found along the weakest part of the faults where earthquakes occur.

“Our model predicts that movement along phyllosilicate-rich fault zones becomes more difficult as it becomes faster, something that is consistent with experiments,” said Hartog.

This behaviour prevents earthquakes and suggests minerals other than phyllosilicates are important in causing earthquakes, according to Hartog.

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The IMD issues alerts that are colour coded from green to red. An oranger alert means there are chances of heavy to very heavy rainfall. It means the administration must be prepared for anything.

“Aila embankments were mostly constructed when Rajib Banerjee was the irrigation minister. Other ministers hardly took interest in settling land and related issues,” said a senior state government official.

Aila embankment is a hybrid of earthen blocks and bricks with a spreading slope built inwards. It requires keeping space for a mangrove buffer in front, which means that it needs more land.

Sundarbans has a population of five million people in 54 of 102 islands, with a density over 1,000 per square kilometre.

Hidkal and Malaprabha dams in Karnataka’s Belagavi district — one of the worst hit in the 2019 floods — also had more stored water than last year.

Ukai dam — from where sudden release of water led to floods in Gujarat’s Surat in 2006

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The CWC recently revised the rule curve for four major dams in Kerala, lowering permitted water levels in the Idukki, Kakki, Banasura Sagar and Idamalayar reservoirs.

One of the reasons for this was reduced power consumption due to the lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The hydroelectric dam, as a result, is underworked. Another reason is that two of the six generators at Idduki dam are not functioning.

Officials at the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) said they were following the rule curve.

Nisarga is the second cyclone in the North Indian Ocean (NIO) region in 2020 after cyclone Amphan in the Bay of Bengal. It is the first one in the Arabian Sea this year, after the five that emerged there in 2019.

Generally, the southwest monsoon season for northeast states begin from the first week of June. However, extreme rain due to Cyclone Amphan has apparently put these states in a crisis situation before the monsoon rains begin.

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