Government will set up 32 new seismological observatories by the year end to boost information gathering capability on earthquakes.At present 84 such observatiories are functional in the country. The observatories generate ground motion data recorded by the digital seismography used for estimation of data and other earthquake parameters. <br/><br/>Talking to AIR, Secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences M Rajeevan said, the five observatories will be installed in Uttar Pradesh, four each in Bihar and Haryana, three each in Himachal Pradesh and Delhi, two each in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and one each in Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Lakshadweep. He said, by adding these new observatories, the information can be gathered within shorter time.Mr Rajeevan said, by next year, the number of observatories will be increased to 150.