A team from the faculty of Applied Mechanics ( structural dynamics and earthquake engineering ) at the institute was asked by NGO SEEDS to visit Nepal in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2015 for providing technical support to them . The team from the department had earlier visited Gujarat when an earthquake struck the state in 2001 and Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2004 when a tsunami struck there after a massive quake in Sumatra , Indonesia
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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