‘Unusual’ deep-sea quake in Bay of Bengal worries scientists, probe on | Bhubaneswar News

Bhubaneswar: The 5.1-Kalpanic earthquake hit on the east coast of India on Tuesday morning was “unusual”, said, scientists said, who doubt an undesirable mistake system inside the sea, can cause future disasters because an investigation team examines unprecedented earthquake activity.
At 6.10 am, the sub -center of Quake was located at a depth of 91 km below the sea surface, about 286 km from Puri, but it sent strong shocks to Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh, the National Center for Cesmology (NCS) said.
As soon as the earthquake alerts on smartphones were closed, many people got out of their beds.
Some people went to the sea shore in Paradip and Puri. “When I saw the news of the earthquake on TV, and to be the Bay of Earthquake, I came to the beach of the sea, to check if there was any change in the sea,” said Raja, a resident of Puri.
Scientists said that they are not happy and have decided to dig deep in a sudden earthquake.
While the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has formed separate teams to conduct a study on the latest earthquake from Odisha and West Bengal, Ajay Kumar, Scientist, Tsunami Early Warning Center, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (Incois) Hyderabad said that it was an ‘unusual sessmic event’.
He said, “Most earthquakes occur on the tectonic plates fault boundaries, where plates are present. Many earthquakes occur in Indonesia, near Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and other places in Southeast Asia because these places are located on major plates boundaries,” he said.
Kumar said that there are also boundaries of minor plates, which have defects and fractures.
He said, “Tuesday’s earthquake occurred in an unusual region. Earlier, a similar earthquake occurred in the Gulf of the Bengal region 9–10 years ago. This means that there is a minor mistake system under the sea. More studies are required to learn more about it.”
Reverse of similar views, Prantik Mandal, CSIR-Nanatiial Geophysical Research Institint (NGRI) Hyderabad chief scientist said that the reasons for a detailed study on the earthquakes in the Bay of Bengal showed that the reasons are revealed.
“After the study of defects and fractures in the plates, we can assess the vulnerability of the region,” he said.
A structural geologist and a structural geologist and visiting professor in IIT Bhubaneswar, Tapas Kumar Biswal said that preventive strategies are required to face possible future disasters.
“This earthquake is unusual to the Odisha coast. Earthquakes are usually in Japan, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia as these countries are located within a highly earthquake area ‘Ring of Fire’ around the Pacific Ocean, where tectonic plates collide, which causes frequent earthquake and volcanic activity,” he said.
Biswal said that the Gulf of the Bengal region is now becoming unstable. He said, “Because there are defects and fractures in huge rocks under the sea. We cannot take it lightly. It’s time when we study seriously and understand the defects and fractures in minor plates in the earth’s crust below this sea,” he said.
GSI Deputy Director General Debasish Bhattacharya said that he would send a team from another team from Kolkata and Odisha to conduct a study in the coastal part of Odisha and West Bengal, where the tremors were felt. “We are constantly studying the earthquake. We will also study the earthquake,” he said.