ITI Rajouri students develop earthquake alarm for early warning signals

Source(s): Greater Kashmir Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Days after a strong earthquake shook parts of North India including Jammu and Kashmir, students of the Electrician trade at Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Rajouri, have developed an earthquake alarm model to raise the earliest warning signals for the population during an earthquake.

This earthquake alarm, as per students, can play a vital role in saving the lives of people during tremors.

Sajad Ahmed, a student of ITI Rajouri and part of a team that has created this model said that an earthquake is a dangerous natural disaster and it has taken millions of lives and prediction of this disaster is still not possible.

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“ We have built an earthquake alarm model which is a circuit consisting of a metallic body, wiring network, a battery, a switch, and a buzzer (alarm),” he said.

Regarding the working of the model, Sajad said that whenever earthquake tremors are felt, the metallic body will get vibrated which will develop a signal and a buzzer will blow, raising an alarm with which people will get alerts about the earthquake.

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Hazards Earthquake
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