Thrust area of research

Seismic hazard assessment, strong motion seismology, Attenuation, Modeling and Inversion, Thermal and exhumation history of the Himalayan orogen and Himalayan tectonics, Remote Sensing & GIS applications for Earth Resources Survey with special reference to hydrogeomorphology, water resources, watershed management, disaster management and geo-environmental studies. Probabilistic seismic and tsunami hazard assessment, Coulomb stress modeling, stochastic hazard assessment, study of seismic sequences, Magneto telluric Studies Etc.

Teaching and Research Collaboration with Global universities/ institutes

The faculty members of the department are already publishing research papers in collaboration with the faculties/scientists of the foreign universities/institutes such as Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Germany, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taipei, Taiwan, Geophysics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Key Laboratory of Dynamical Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, China, Department of Geophysics, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey; Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan etc.