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Assessment of leaning of houses in Agartala City: an applied geophysical approach, Tripura, India

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The present study is aiming to assess tiltation and subsidence of the houses in the heart of the Agartala City based on near-surface electrical resistivity (ER). The near-surface electrical resistivity (ER) testing is done on the 13 sites within the city using Wenner-Alfa array. The field instrumentation is done by four-pin (electrode) method. The DC electrical current passes through the electrode at the same time. Each soil layer is represented by the single data set. The resistivity of the soil is calculated by 2лaR formula. The ER data is indicating best possible visualisation of the near subsurface (up to the depth of 15 m) imaging of the soil structure of the Agartala City and its surrounding areas. On the basis of spatial distribution of electrical resistivity reveals that the flood plain land with average elevation 12 m where less ER value (<150 Ωm) and the areas of dissected highlands (Tilla land) with average elevation are 30 m which are marked with high ER value (>300 Ωm). The ER data shows that Agartala and its surrounding areas are characterised by different types of soil which are related to different geomorphic and geological units. The dry sandy soil and sandy clay soil on the highland areas and wet sandy alluvium and clayey alluvium of the flood plain area make differences of ER data.

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Acknowledgements

Authors acknowledge their debt to Dr. R. Diwara, Chief Scientist, CSIR North-East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, for providing seismo-tectonic map of North-East India. Authors also acknowledge the support of students, research scholars and faculties, Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University, to execute the research work. Authors are thankful to the people of Agartala City, India, who cooperated during the survey. The authors are also grateful to the learned reviewers and the Editor of the journal Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Prof. Abdullah M. Al-Amri) for their valuable and meticulous suggestions. We also thank Dr. Laxmi Kumari, Assistant Professor, Department of English, KL University for going through the manuscript carefully. Authors are thankful to Tripura University for caring out this research.

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  3. Department of Arts, KL University, Vaddeswaram, Green Fields, Andhra Pradesh, 522302, India

    Abhijit Santra

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Sen, S., Santra, A. Assessment of leaning of houses in Agartala City: an applied geophysical approach, Tripura, India. Arab J Geosci 16, 535 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-023-11643-3

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