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Preetish Kakoty’s Biography

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I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. My current research focuses on enhancing resilience through multi-hazard recovery analysis of earthquake- and flood-affected infrastructure.

My work sits at the intersection of natural hazards simulation, structural engineering, risk quantification, and decision science. I use statistical and physics-based simulation tools to estimate disaster impacts and support risk-informed decision-making for the built environme…

Preetish Kakoty’s Journalist Portfolio

Vancouver built up fast - but now its older towers face an earthquake reckoning

Vancouver built up fast - but now its older towers face an earthquake reckoning

Seismic retrofitting of aging buildings is complex due to ambiguity in responsibility and a lack of incentive…

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Seismic waves reflected from Earth's core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east - Physics World

Seismic waves reflected from Earth's core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east - Physics World

Shift followed the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and represents a new type of seismic hazard

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Earthquake sensors reveal vital information about how hurricanes move and grow - Physics World

Earthquake sensors reveal vital information about how hurricanes move and grow - Physics World

Seismic stations in Louisiana have been found to provide insights into Hurricane Isaac

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Physics-based simulations could improve earthquake-damage predictions, why aren't they being used...

Physics-based simulations could improve earthquake-damage predictions, why aren't they being used...

Discussion and debate at the US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering

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C V Raman: the physicist with a 'Himalayan ego' who went to Stockholm convinced he'd win a Nobel prize

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By Preetish Kakoty
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Most physicists learn they've won a Nobel prize after being phoned up by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. But, as Preetish Kakoty discovers, the Indian physicist C V Raman was so convinced he would win in 1930 that he went to Sweden before the news had even been announced How confident, or perhaps delusional, do you have to be to travel to Stockholm because you're so certain you'll be awarded a Nobel prize?
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Mercury may not need an ancient dynamo to explain its magnetic crust

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By Preetish Kakoty
| Physics World Verified
Magnetic mission Artist's impression of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft orbiting Mercury. (Courtesy: JPL/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) A new study using data from a space mission suggests that most of Mercury's crustal magnetic fields can be explained by iron and other magnetized rocks in the crust responding to the planet's weak present-day core magnetic field, rather than from an ancient field, as had been inferred previously.
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Earthquake fault irregularities control rupture speed and influence ground motion

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By Preetish Kakoty
| Physics World Verified
Shake map: A US Geological Survey map showing the location and intensity of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. (Courtesy: USGS) Earthquakes that propagate at higher speeds make the ground move more than it would in slower but otherwise comparable earthquakes, say geophysicists.
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