Radon transport mechanism in the soil can predict earthquake, says researchers of the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NITR).
In this regard, Professor of Mathematics at NITR, Dr Snehashish Chakraverty and his team members are working on the challenging problem for the last four years by combining the concept of intervaluncertainties.
“By this modeling, one may estimate a general uncertainty band of radon concentration in the earth crust. By observing the anomaly behaviour of the band of the radon data generated may lead to the prediction of earthquake and tsunami. For the practical applicability of the model, they used the radon data generated from a geo-station installed at NIT Rourkela. This is funded by the BRNS (Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences), Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai,” said Prof Chakraverty.
Professor Chakraverty’s team includes PhD students Tharasi Dilleswar Rao and Karunakar Perumandla in collaboration with BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India) scientists Dr Bijay Kumar Sahoo and Dr BK Sapra. This work has recently been published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
