Would the Taj Mahal, Qutab withstand a quake?

How safe are some of the country's famous monuments? With experts predicting that an earthquake of intense magnitude (7 or 8 on the Richter scale) is just waiting to strike north India, how earthquake proof is the Taj Mahal, India's monument of monuments? Will it majestically withstand the brutal tremors or be felled by them? What could be done to protect this and other architectural marvels? With Delhi's Qutab Minar survive``It is the safest monument,'' says D V Sharma, superindenting archaeologist in Agra. ``It will survive even if the whole of Agra is flattened by an earthquake.'' The monument, he explains, was structurally devised to be quake proof. ``Mughal engineers were well versed in this technology,''