Earthquake there, aftershocks here

India currently operates 20 nuclear reactors, only one of which (Narora in UP) is located in a seismically active area. Six more are under construction and several more planned. Depending on susceptibility to earthquakes, places are classified into different zones, with zone 1 being the least susceptible and zone 5 the maximum. Nowadays, no place is classified as zone 1, and it is considered that every location would have some chance of getting an earthquake sometime. Narora is located in a zone 4 area, while the rest of Indian reactors are in zone 2.

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