"So we should relocate everyone to the moon or where?" the Supreme Court asked on Friday, December 12, while dismissing a petition which said 75% of India's population is in a high seismic zone and sought directions to the authorities to minimise damage from earthquakes.

The petitioner, who was appearing in person, told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that earlier it was considered that only Delhi was in the high seismic zone, but recently it was concluded that 75% of the Indian population falls under it.

"So we should relocate everyone to the moon or where?" the bench asked.

The petitioner said recently, there was a big earthquake in Japan.

"First we have to bring volcanoes into this country, then we can compare it with Japan," the bench said.

The petitioner said th

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