District Disaster Management Plan- 2012 District Faridabad

Please refer Annexure 1. for the list of areas extremely vulnerable to earthquake.It is widely recognized that “earthquakes do not kill, unsafe structures do.” Using GIS basedtechnology combined by Micro Level studies, it is possible to determine the level of concentrationof people in specific time zones in the district and the unsafe structures as well, thereby, alsodetermining the level of regional vulnerability to earthquake in Faridabad. Considering thelimitation of time and resources, Department of Revenue, Faridabad in consultation with MunicipalCorporation Faridabad and HIPA Gurgaon has prepared Earthquake Risk Zone Map of Faridabadusing the Autocad Software.Density, Occupational Structure and Time of the Disaster have been used as the determiningfactors to arrive at Day Time Risk Zone Map and Night Time Risk Zone Map which clearlyindicates risk zones categorized into (a) very high (b) high (c) moderate and (d) low.It has been observed that very high risk zones in the district during a day time earthquake are alsothose areas which are largely commercial and industrial. Similarly, very high risk zones in thedistrict during a night time earthquake are also those areas which are largely residential.32