Earthquake in Mumbai

_consequences_ have concluded that _disaster management_ would be one of the precautious tool to be handled in _Mumbai_ in order to prepare the city to face the consequences of the earthquakes.

The most significant commercial city of India, i.e. Mumbai has experienced many severe earthquakes, starting right from the year 1594 onwards. The major earthquake happened was about two centuries back, besides the devastating earthquake that attacked the _Koyna region_ of Mumbai in the _year 1967_ with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. Even, recently, i.e. in the year 2010, there was said to be an earthquake which was felt in many suburbs of the city and in the _Thane region_ with a magnitude of 2.3 on the Richter scale. Likewise a similar one, but with heavier magnitude, i.e. around 4 was said to happen in the _year 2009_ in many _western parts_ of Mumbai. Hence, it could be said that the earthquakes are always happening in Mumbai, then and there, just that the _after effects_ of the earthquake is not worst to list out in the headlines. But always, there were _rumors of earthquakes_ in Mumbai and the pressure is always building up in the city. This is majorly due to the reason that Mumbai does fall under the category of seismic zone 3 with high vulnerability to the occurrence of earthquakes. Many reasons have been portrayed for the risk of earthquakes in Mumbai and the significant one is the _geographical location_ of the city, as the researchers say that the _major fault lines_ are the Thane creek, Panvel creek, and the Amba river of Mumbai. Especially, the _Panvel zone_ is considered to be the _seismically active_ region of Mumbai and further it also lies in the north-west direction, where one can find many volcanic rocks, thereby making the region highly active seismic zone of the city.