Jammu, March 30 -- The ground beneath Jammu & Kashmir has always been restless - but now, it's officially the most seismically dangerous land in all of India.
In a landmark revision of India's earthquake zone map, the Bureau of Indian Standards has created an entirely new risk category - Zone VI - and placed the entire Union Territory of J&K squarely within it. Every single one of its 20 districts. No exceptions.
This isn't a routine cartographic update. It is a formal acknowledgment that millions of people are living, working, and sending their children to school on some of the most geologically volatile ground on the planet.
In its revised earthquake zone map for the country, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has placed the entire U...