Final Hazards Report
In India there are many natural hazards, but the most dangerous ones are floods and earthquakes. First I will tell you about earthquakes in India and why they happen. India has a very high frequency of great earthquakes. And they happen mostly in t he north eastern region of the country as well as the entire Himalayan belt which is susceptible to earthquakes of a magnitude more than 8.0. The main cause of earthquakes in these regions is due to the movement of the Indian plate towards the Eurasian plate at the rate of about 50 mm per year. India has had a number of the world's most greatest earthquakes. Besides the Himalayan region and the Indo Gangetic plains, even peninsular India is prone to damaging earthquakes as clearly illustrated by the Koyna (1967), Latur (1993), and the Jabalpur (1997) earthquakes. Indian earthquakes have shown some remarkable features which have implications on strategies for reducing earthquake disasters in the country...