The Indian subcontinent has experienced a number of devastating earthquakes in the last fourteen years, repeatedly reminding us about the high level of seismic hazard and risk prevailing in the country. Two of these were in the Himalayas – Uttarkashiin 1991, Chamoli in 1999, and three in peninsular India – Killari in 1993, Jabalpur in 1997 and Bhuj in 2001. Now the November 2005 Mujafarabad earthquake in Kashmir Himalaya is the latest disaster that has claimed 80,000 lives. The grave hazard and risk the earthquakes pose to the region are once again restated by the above event.
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