Koyna Earthquake

The one thing that scares me is Earthquake. The entire human specie cannot do anything against this, the scary truth of Mother Nature. Koyna dam witnessed two earthquakes on Tuesday,March 14th ,05. One was a slightly bigger 5.1 on Richter scale. Koyna dam lies in Satara district and is one of the major hydro electric power plants

To imagine a small damage to this dam could see cities under water with an unaccountable damage to human life and property. The most rudimentary understanding is that we do not own anything in this world. We live at the mercy of the nature and we can be nowhere within seconds

Earthquakes pose serious problems to the designers of dams, in that hazards have uncertainties associated with the occurrences of extreme events and decisions must be made as to the best way to handle these uncertainties. The koyna dam is susceptible to frequent earthquakes and therefore I feel designing such a dam which the engineers know lies in the zone of earthquake must be a very challenging job. Great work !!!