Government of India avoids panic but angular momentum and aftershock traversal theories point towards massive earthquakes in North East India
Balaji Reddy, Special Correspondent
January 02, 2005

According to some in US, the aftershocks are traversing rapidly along the north ridge of the Andaman fault lines and nay affect the Northeast India especially some of the faulty crust of the earth in Assam and Meghalaya. 

The Government avoided panic and stated that there is nothing to worry. However, sources tell us that Indian Army, Air Force and other security personnel are talking preemptive precautions to protect themselves and the common people in these areas.

The Planetary Angular Momentum theories are also pointing towards the same direction. Some small earthquakes started in Assam already in last few months. Some tectonic specialists point out that the Sumatra Earthquakes precursor may have happened in Assam and started six months back.

A US-based agency created a flutter on Saturday by claiming that aftershocks of last week’s quake off Sumatra are moving northward and may cause a major earthquake in Assam. 

But the Indian government said it had not received any intimation from the agency and its own monitoring indicated there was nothing to fear. According to reports, scientists at the Centre for Earth Observing and Space Research in George Mason University, Virginia, said they had found aftershocks moving north along a 90-degree ridge. "If the sequence of these aftershocks moves further north, it may trigger a very big earthquake in the Assam region, which scientists have been expecting for long," said Ramesh P Singh, vice-chairman of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. 

Singh said the magnitude-5 earthquake on December 30 near Myanmar reported by the US Geological Survey was probably caused by the aftershocks. 

However, the Met department and the National Institute of Oceanography, the Indian government agencies monitoring seismic movements, said they had not received any information from either George Mason University or the IUGG.