About NCS
National Centre for Seismology (NCS) is an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India established in August 2014 after separating the Seismology Division of India Meteorological Department. It is the nodal agency of the Government of India for earthquake monitoring in the country. Apart from earthquake monitoring, NCS is also actively involved in the Seismic Hazard Microzonation and seismological research. The major activities currently being pursued by the NCS are:
- Earthquake monitoring on 24X7 basis
- Operation and maintenance of national seismological network comprising of 115 Stations
- Maintenance of Seismological data centre and information services.
- Seismic hazard microzonation related studies
- Aftershock/Earthquake swarm monitoring/survey
- Understanding of Earthquake processes
- Public outreach