Mission

The vision of the institute is to understand the science of earthquake occurrence and use this knowledge to save lives and minimize damage due to earthquakes.

Strategic thrusts

• Near real time earthquake monitoring through a dense network of broad band seismometers (BBS) and strong motion accelerographs (SMA)
• Modelling earthquake source processes
• Crustal structure and its relation to seismogenesis
• Probabilistic ground motion prediction, micro and macro zoning of various vulnerable zones
• Making recommendations for earthquake disaster mitigation
• Improve seismic safety and performance in built in environment especially in highly vulnerable urban areas through site specific hazard assessment
• Undertaking steps and efforts to communicate earthquake science to engineers and use the knowledge base for creating public awareness
• Quantifying long and short term deformation using active fault mapping, paleoseismology and tectonic geodesy
• Shallow surface investigations for resource exploration
• Earthquake precursory research through multi-parametric geophysical observations.