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Dr. Rakesh Kumar Dumka

Designation : Scientist D
Phone Number : +91-79-66739016
Email : rkdumka@isr.res.in, rkdumka@gmail.com

Academics:

  • Ph.D (Geology), Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand (2010).
  • M.Sc. (Geology), Kumaun University Nainital, Uttarakhand (2002).

Positions:

  • 2022-Present - Scientist D, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Gandhinagar, Govt. of Gujarat.
  • 2010-2022 - Scientist B, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Gandhinagar, Govt. of Gujarat.
  • 2009- 2010 – Geophysicist, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Gandhinagar, Govt. of Gujarat.
  • 2008-2009 – Geologist, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Gandhinagar, Govt. of Gujarat.
  • 2007-2008 - Research Scholar, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Gandhinagar, Govt. of Gujarat.
  • 2003-2007 - Research Scholar in GBPIHED, Almora, MoEF-GoI.

Thrust areas of research:

  • GNSS-Geodesy, Remote sensing techniques such as PSINSAR along with geological studies for the Research and Developmental (R&D) activities related to the natural disaster, i.e. earthquake, landslide, ground/ urban subsidence and active faults.

Awards and Honours :

  • Young Scientist Award from Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (U-Cost), Dehradun, 2007.
  • First rank among the Young scientist category- National Humboldt workshop, by the Humboldt House of Uttarakhand. Nainital, 2007.
  • The GNSS research work (Dumka et al., 2018) is acknowledged and published by UNAVCO in the Science news category (Geodetic Observations of Water Volume Changes in Dams Causing Stress Changes | Science | UNAVCO).

Research Publications:

  • Miral, MS, Kumar, Kireet, Dumka, RK (2003). Traditional construction practices in the seismically active areas of Uttaranchal. Himalayan Ecology, 11(1), 37.
  • Kumar, Kireet, Dumka, Rakesh K, Miral, MS, Satyal, GS, Pant, M (2008). Estimation of retreat rate of Gangotri glacier using rapid static and kinematic GPS survey. Current Science, 94(2), 258.
  • Kumar, K, Pant, MC, Satyal, GS, Dumka, Rakesh K (2008). Comparison of Digital Surface Modelling Techniques for Sloping Hill Terrain Using GPS Data. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 28(4), 439–447.
  • Choudhury, Pallabee, Catherine, JK, Gahalaut, VK, Chopra, Sumer, Dumka, Rakesh K, Roy, Ketan Singha (2013). Post-seismic deformation associated with the 2001 Bhuj earthquake. Natural Hazards, 65(2), 1109–1118.
  • Rastogi, BK, Choudhury, Pallabee, Dumka, Rakesh K, Sreejith, KM, Majumdar, TJ (2012). Stress pulse migration by viscoelastic process for long-distance delayed triggering of shocks in Gujarat, India, after the 2001 Mw 7.7 Bhuj earthquake. Geophysical Monograph, 196, 63-73.
  • Dumka, Rakesh Kumar, Kotlia, Bahadur Singh, Miral, Mahendra Singh, Joshi, Lalit Mohan, Kumar, Kireet, Sharma, Arun Kumar (2013). First Global Positioning System (GPS) Derived Recession Rate in Milam Glacier, Higher Central Himalaya, India. International Engineering Science, 2, 58-63.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K (2011). Determination of Crustal Strain Field in Kumaun Himalaya Using Global Positioning System (GPS) Geodesy. Book, Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG Sarrbrucken, Germany.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, Kotlia, Bahadur S, Kumar, Kireet, Satyal, Gokul S, Joshi, Lalit M (2014). Crustal deformation revealed by GPS in Kumaun Himalaya, India. Journal of Mountain Science, 11, 41–50.
  • Jade, Sridevi, Mukul, Malay, Gaur, VK, Dumka, Rakesh Kumar, Jagannathan, Saigeetha: et., al (2014). Contemporary deformation in the Kashmir–Himachal, Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya: significant insights from 1995–2008 GPS time series. Journal of Geodesy, 1–19.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K., Kotlia, B S, K, Kumar (2014). Quantification of crustal strain rate in Kumaun Himalaya (India) using GPS measurements of crustal deformation. Himalayan Geology, 35(2), 146–155.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Rastogi, BK, Morthekai, P, Dumka, Rakesh K, Kandregula, Raj Sunil (2016). Active segmentation assessment of the tectonically active South Wagad fault in Kachchh, western Peninsular India. Geomorphology, 253, 491–507.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Rastogi, BK, Morthekai, P, Dumka, Rakesh K (2016). Landform development in a zone of active Gedi Fault, Eastern Kachchh rift basin, India. Tectonophysics, 670, 115–126.
  • Kothyari, GC, Dumka, RK, Singh, AP, Chauhan, G, Thakkar, MG, Biswas, SK (2017). Tectonic evolution and stress pattern of South Wagad Fault at the Kachchh Rift Basin in western India. Geological Magazine, 154(4), 875–887.
  • Kothyari, GC, Rastogi, BK, Dumka, RK, Chauhan, M (2015). Secondary surface deformation along the Bharudia/North Wagad Fault Zone in Kachchh rift basin, western India. Comunicaçõe Geológicas, 102(1).
  • Jade, Sridevi, Shrungeshwara, TS, Kumar, Kireet, Choudhury, Pallabee, Dumka, Rakesh K, Bhu, Harsh (2017). India plate angular velocity and contemporary deformation rates from continuous GPS measurements from 1996 to 2015. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 11439.
  • Kumar, Kireet, Dumka, Rakesh K, Miral, MS, Satyal, GS, Pant, M (2008). Lower recession rate of Gangotri glacier during 1971-2004-Response. Current Science, 95(1), 10–10.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, Kotlia, Bahadur Singh, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Paikrey, Joydeep, Dimri, Siddharth (2018). Detection of high and moderate crustal strain zones in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 53, 503–521.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, Kotlia, BS, SuriBabu, D, Narain, Pratishtha, Prajapati, Sandip (2019). Present-day crustal deformation and geodetic strain in the vicinity of Dholavira-Harappan civilization site, Kachchh, western part of the Indian plate. Quaternary International, 507, 324–332.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Shirvalkar, Prabodh, Kandregula, Raj Sunil, Rawat, Yadubirsingh, Dumka, Rakesh K, Joshi, Neha (2019). Holocene tectonic activity along Kachchh Mainland Fault: Impact on late mature Harappan civilization, Kachchh, western India. Quaternary International, 507, 274–287.
  • Choudhury, Pallabee, Gahalaut, Kalpna, Dumka, Rakesh, Gahalaut, VK, Singh, Abhay Kumar, Kumar, Sanjay (2018). GPS measurement of land subsidence in Gandhinagar, Gujarat (Western India), due to groundwater depletion. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77, 1–5.
  • Marco Madella, P Ajithprasad, Andrea Balbo, Jorge Caro Saiz, Francesc Cecilia Conesa, Juan José García-Granero Fos, Carla Lancelotti, Bernardo Rondelli, SV Rajesh, Javier Ruiz Pérez, José L Mateos, Charusmita Gadekar, Rakesh Dumka, Girish C Kothyari, P Mortekhai, Prabhin Sukumaran, (2012). La campaña de excavación 2011 del North Gujarat Archaeological Project (NoGAP): metodología interdisciplinar para el estudio de contextos socio-ecológicos en el Holoceno.
  • Dumka, Rakesh, Choudhury, Pallabee, Gahalaut, VK, Gahalaut, Kalpna, Yadav, Rajeev Kumar (2018). GPS Measurements of Deformation Caused by Seasonal Filling and Emptying Cycles of Four Hydroelectric Reservoirs in India. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108 (5B): 2955–2966.
  • Gahalaut, Vineet K, Gahalaut, Kalpna, Dumka, Rakesh K, Chaudhury, Pallabi, Yadav, Rajeev K (2019). Geodetic evidence of high compression across seismically active Kachchh paleorift, India. Tectonics, 38(8), 3097–3107.
  • Naveen Kumar, Kl Mohan , Rakesh K. Dumka, S Chopra (2020). Soft Sediment Deformation Structures in Quaternary Sediments from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Western India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 95, 455–464.
  • Bisht, Harish, Kotlia, Bahadur Singh, Kumar, Kireet, Dumka, Rakesh Kumar, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Upadhyay, Rajeev (2021). GPS derived crustal velocity, tectonic deformation and strain in the Indian Himalayan arc. Quaternary International, 575, 141–152.
  • Kotlia, BS, Joshi, LM, Dumka, RK, Kumar, K (2009). Vulnerability of the Balia Nala landslide at Nainital: preliminary GPs analysis. Natural resource conservation in Uttarakhand. UK Publication, Haldwani, 1, 136–150.
  • Naveen Kumar, K. Mohan, R.K. Dumka, S. Chopra (2020). Evaluation of Linear structures in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Western India: implication to Seismotectonics of the study area. Journal of Indian Geophysical Union, 24(2), 10–21.
  • Kotlia, BS, Dumka, RK, Miral, MS, Joshi, LM, Kumar, K, Srivastava, A, Roy, I (2009). Recession rate of tributary of Gangotri glacier system, Garhwal Himalaya-India. Bio-Nano-Geo Science the future challenge, 141–146.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, SuriBabu, Donupudi, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Prajapati, Sandip, Kotlia, BS (2021). Demarcation of solar cycle 24 and characterization of ionospheric GPS-TEC towards the western part of India. Quaternary International, 575, 111–119.
  • Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Joshi, Lalit Mohan, Kotlia, Bahadur Singh, Alam, Akhtar, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Kandregula, Raj Sunil, Singh, Anoop Kumar, Dumka, Rakesh Kumar (2021). Tectonic imprints of landscape evolution in the Bhilangana and Mandakini basin, Garhwal Himalaya, India: a geospatial approach. Quaternary International, 575, 21–36.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, SuriBabu, D, Kapil, M, Prajapati, S, narain, P (2021). PS-InSAR derived deformation study in the Kachchh, Western India. Applied Computing and Geosciences, 8, 100041.
  • Jani, Chirag, Kundregula, Raj Sunil, Bhosale, Suraj, Chavan, Anil, Lakhote, Abhishek, Bhandari, Subhash, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Chauhan, Gaurav, Dumka, Rakesh K, Babu, D Suri (2022). Delineation of tectonically active zones in the Island Belt Uplift region, Kachchh Basin, western India: A geomorphic and geodetic approach. Quaternary Science Advances, 2, 100034.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, Suribabu, D, Narain, Pratishtha, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Prajapati, Sandip (2022). PSInSAR and GNSS derived deformation study in the west part of Narmada Son Lineament (NSL), western India. Quaternary Science Advances, 2, 100035.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Joshi, Neha, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Malik, Kapil, Dumka, Rakesh, Sati, SP, Sundriyal, YP (2022). Reconstruction of active surface deformation in the Rishi Ganga basin, Central Himalaya using PSInSAR: a feedback towards understanding the 7th February 2021 Flash Flood. Advances in Space Research, 69(4), 1894–1914.
  • Khayingshing Luirei, Girish Ch. Kothyari, Rakesh K. Dumka, Surendra S. Bhakuni (2021). Assessment of the tectonically induced Quaternary landforms and active deformation in the area between Main Boundary Thrust and Himalayan Frontal Thrust, south of the Siang Antiform, Arunachal Himalaya, India. Geological Journal, 57(2), 554-574.
  • Dumka, R.K, Suribabu, D, Prajapati, S (2022). PSI and GNSS derived ground subsidence detection in the UNESCO Heritage City of Ahmedabad, Western India. Geocarto International, 37(25), 7639–7658.
  • Suribabu, Donupudi, Dumka, Rakesh K, Paikray, Joydeep, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Thakkar, Mahesh, Swamy, Kandadai V, Taloor, Ajay K, Prajapati, Sandip (2022). Geodetic characterization of active Katrol Hill Fault (KHF) of Central Mainland Kachchh, western India. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 13 (3), 247-253.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, SuriBabu, D, Kotlia, BS, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Prajapati, Sandip (2022). Crustal deformation measurements by global positioning system (GPS) along NSL, western India. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 13(3), 254–260.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Kandregula, Raj Sunil, Dumka, Rakesh, Chauhan, Gaurav, Taloor, Ajay Kumar (2022). Quaternary tectonic history of seismically active intraplate Kachchh Rift Basin, western India: A review. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 13(3), 192–204.
  • Kumar, Naveen, Dumka, Rakesh K, Mohan, Kapil, Chopra, Sumer (2022). Relative active tectonics evaluation using geomorphic and drainage indices, in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, western India. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 13(3), 219–229.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Malik, Kapil, Dumka, Rakesh K, Naik, Sambit Prasanajit, Biswas, Rajib, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Luirei, Khayingshing, Joshi, Neha, Kandregula, Raj Sunil (2022). Identification of active deformation zone associated with the 28th April 2021 Assam earthquake (Mw 6.4) using the PSInSAR time series. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 206, 104811.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K, Prajapati, Sandip, SuriBabu, Donupudi, Swamy, Kandadai V, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Malik, Kapil (2023). GPS and InSAR derived evidences of intra‐basin stress and strike‐slip tectonics in the vicinity of 2001 (M7. 7) earthquake, Kachchh, western India. Geological Journal, 58(2), 683–699.
  • Suribabu, D, Dumka, Rakesh K, Kothyari, GC, Swamy, KV, Prajapati, Sandip (2023). Identification of crustal deformation in the Saurashtra region, western India: insights from PSI and GNSS derived investigation. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 57, 639-669.
  • Kholia, Neha, Kotlia, BS, Joshi, Neha, Kandregula, RS, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Dumka, Rakesh K (2023). Quantitative analysis of Khajjiar and Rewalsar lakes and their surroundings, Himachal Pradesh (India): Remote sensing and GIS-based approaches. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 211, 104976.
  • Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Kothyari, Girish Ch, Dumka, Rakesh K, Alam, Akhtar, Malik, Kapil (2023). Crustal deformation study of Kashmir basin: Insights from PSInSAR based time series analysis. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 211, 104979.
  • Simha, C Prasanna, Natarajan, Venkatanathan, Dumka, Rakesh, Rao, Katlamudi Madhusudhana (2023). Spatial and temporal behaviour of Ionospheric VTEC and Atmospheric parameters before New Zealand earthquake on 13th November 2016 (M 7.8). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 212, 104989.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Dumka, Rakesh K, Chopra, Sumer, Singh, K Dilip, Tamta, Bhavan K, Kamra, Charu (2023). Triggering mechanism and brittle-ductile dynamics of active faults in the south-central Saurashtra horst, Gujarat, western India: A geospatial, geological, and geophysical approach. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 9, 100155.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Jani, Chirag, Bajpai, Sudhanshu, Lakhote, Abhishek, Chauhan, Gaurav, Agrawal, Kamal, Dumka, Rakesh, Shukla, Abhishek, Kandregula, Raj Sunil, Sairam, B (2024). Bed parallel slip and paleostress analysis of the Kodki fault zone, Kachchh, Western India. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100137.
  • Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Dumka, Rakesh Kumar, Kothyari, Girish Chandra, Srivastava, Prashant, Khare, Neloy (2023). Active tectonics and surface processes using geospatial technology. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 215, 105140.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Pant, PD, Kotlia, Bahadur Singh, Mehta, Manish, Joshi, Harshita, Chauhan, Dinesh S, Dumka, Rakesh K, Luirei, Khayingshing, Joshi, Moulishree, Tamta, Bhuvan K (2023). Geoheritage Sites in Kumaun Himalaya of Uttarakhand, India. Geoheritage, 15(3), 104.
  • Mohan, Kapil, Kumar, Naveen, Dumka, Rakesh, Chopra, Sumer (2023). Signature of Active Tectonics and Its Implications Towards Seismic Hazard in Western Part of Stable Peninsular India. 53, 1-24.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Dumka, Rakesh K, Luirei, Khayingshing, Kandregula, Raj Sunil, Taloor, Ajay Kumar, Malik, Kapil, Joshi, Achla, Patidar, Atul K, Bhan, Uday (2024). Estimation of active surface deformation using PSInSAR technique of the Central Himalayan region. Geocarto International, 39(1), 2302415.
  • Dumka, Rakesh K (2024). Contemporary deformation study along Cambay and Narmada paleo-rift system, western part of Indian plate. Quaternary Sciences Advances, 13, 100166.
  • Simha, C Prasanna, Rao, K Madhusudhana, Dumka, Rakesh K (2024). Observation of Atmospheric and Ionospheric Anomalies before the Nepal Earthquakes on 25th April and 12th May 2015. Geotectonics, 58(2), 234–249.
  • Rakesh K Dumka, D Suribabu, S. Chopra, S. Kumar, Sandip Prajapati (2024). PSI derived measurements of monsoon induced anomalous deformation before the earthquake swarm activity: a case study in the Saurashtra, Western India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 83, 496.
  • Kothyari, Girish Ch, Joshi, Achla, Dumka, Rakesh K, Kotlia, Bahadur S, Patidar, Atul Kumar, Joshi, Moulishree, Luirei, Khayingshing, Naik, Sambit Prasanajit, Taloor, Ajay K, Joshi, Mayank (2024). Assessment of Active Deformation in the Surrounding Regions of the 7th to 12th AD Monuments in the Central Kumaon Himalayas: A Seismotectonic Approach using PSInSAR. Geoheritage, 16(4), 123.

Projects Completed/Ongoing

  • To measure the ongoing deformation along the Katrol Hill Fault (KHF) in the Central Part of mainland Kachchh using GPS measurements, MoES (GoI).
  • Real-Time monitoring of GPS network for crustal deformation study in Gujarat.
  • GPS & GAGAN/IRNSS data analysis for Intraplate Geodynamic profiling in Active Seismic zones. ISRO(GoI)
  • GPS site monitoring in the ISGN program (www.isgn.gov.in) by INCOIS and MoES, New Delhi
  • Identification of progressively growing crustal strain zones along MCT in Uttarakhand Himalaya, using GPS geodesy.
  • Archeological investigation of Vadnagar, North Gujarat region. Gujarat state Archeological Department.
  • Crustal deformation monitoring and upgradation of ISR GPS network, of Gujarat region.
  • A joint Indo-Norwegian project entitled “Intra plate seismicity in India and Norway: Distribution, properties and causes–(IPSIN)”.
  • A joint project “Geodynamics of Himalaya and Earthquake Precursor Studies, NW Himalaya”.