The new Seismological Observatory inaugurated by Dr Jitendra Singh is located at which place?
- A.Udhampur
- B.Kishtwar
- C.Baramulla
- D.Patnitop
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Explanation
The correct answer is Kishtwar, a town lying in a high seismic zone of Jammu and Kashmir. The observatory was set up through the Ministry of Earth Sciences, carries digital seismic equipment and transmits readings in real time to the round-the-clock Earthquake Monitoring Centre of the National Centre for Seismology in New Delhi. Option A is wrong because Udhampur already had one of the region's observatories before this addition, as did Jammu and Srinagar. Option C is wrong because Baramulla is named in connection with a Doppler Weather Radar to be commissioned in 2027, not with a seismic station. Option D is wrong because Patnitop hosts the High-Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory, a specialised meteorological facility that studies clouds rather than earthquakes. With the new station, the union territory has four seismological observatories in all.
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Practice Questions
Real-time data from the new observatory will be transmitted to the Earthquake Monitoring Centre of which organisation?
- A.India Meteorological Department
- B.National Disaster Management Authority
- C.National Centre for Seismology
- D.Geological Survey of India
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The correct answer is the National Centre for Seismology, whose Earthquake Monitoring Centre in New Delhi works round the clock and will receive the Kishtwar readings as they are recorded.
Read the full explanation →How many Automatic Weather Stations does the region now have, against three earlier at Udhampur, Kathua and Ramban?
- A.8
- B.10
- C.12
- D.15
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Nine stations were added to the three that existed at Udhampur, Kathua and Ramban, taking the total to twelve; of the new ones, four are in Kishtwar, two each in Doda and Ramban, and one in Kathua.
Read the full explanation →How many beneficiaries have the weather forecast and agromet advisory services reached in the region?
- A.1,467
- B.3,540
- C.5,467
- D.9,675
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The minister said forecasts are now disseminated at the panchayat level across all panchayats in the five districts, and that the weather forecast and agromet advisory services have reached this many people, giving farmers and residents wider access to weather information.
Read the full explanation →Which of these is India's proposed next-generation timing and spectroscopy mission named in the announcement?
- A.AstroSat
- B.NewAthena
- C.XSat
- D.Aditya
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The announcement describes it as India's proposed next-generation timing and spectroscopy mission, which together with other future observatories will bring improved sensitivity and monitoring capability for studying ultraluminous X-ray sources.
Read the full explanation →The research team that explained the behaviour of ULX-8 was drawn mainly from which institutes?
- A.Indian Institute of Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute
- B.Physical Research Laboratory and Space Applications Centre
- C.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Indian Institute of Science
- D.National Centre for Radio Astrophysics and Aryabhatta Research Institute
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The paper was authored by Tarang Vashisht, a student at IISER Mohali, together with Aru Beri of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and researchers from IUCAA and the Raman Research Institute.
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