The Indian subcontinent has a history of earthquakes. The reason for the intensity and high frequency of earthquakes is the Indian plate driving into Asia at a rate of approximately 47 mm/year.[1] The following is a list of major earthquakes which have occurred in India, including those with epicentres outside India that caused significant damage or casualties in the country.
Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in
natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused
by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great
majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite
the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost
completely eliminate the risk of such deaths. Why is
this? The engineering solutions are both expensive and
technically demanding, so that the benefit-cost ratio
of such solutions is often unfavorable compared with
other interventions designed to save lives in developing
countries. Nonetheless, a range of public disaster risk reduction interventions (including construction activities)
This paper—a product of the Finance Economics & Urban Department, Sustainable Development Network—is part of a
larger effort in the department to analyze the economics of natural disasters. This paper is prepared as a background paper
to the joint World Bank-UN Assessment of the Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. Funding from the Global Facility
for Disaster Reduction and Recovery is gratefully acknowledged. Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the
are highly cost effective. The fact that such interventions
often remain unimplemented or ineffectively executed
points to a role for issues of political economy. Building
regulations in developing countries appear to have limited
impact in many cases, perhaps because of limited capacity
and the impact of corruption. Public construction is
often of low quality—perhaps for similar reasons. This
suggests approaches that emphasize simple and limited
disaster risk regulation covering only the most at-risk
structures and that (preferably) can be monitored by
non-experts. It also suggests a range of transparency and
oversight mechanisms for public construction projects
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The Indian subcontinent has a history of earthquakes. The reason for the intensity and high frequency of earthquakes is the Indian plate driving into Asia at a rate of approximately 47 mm/year.[1] The following is a list of major earthquakes which have occurred in India, including those with epicentres outside India that caused significant damage or casualties in the country.