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Preliminary results from the 2001 India census indicate that the population is now 1,027,015,247 [1], making India the second most populous country in the world [2]. The United Nations projects that by the year 2050, India will be the most populated country in the world with over 1.5 billion people [2]. India has also experienced some of the most devastating earthquakes ever recorded. Examples of earthquakes within the last 100 years and numbers of fatalities and damage are listed in Table 1 [3]. To reduce deaths and economic loss from earthquakes in India, it is important to understand where areas of high population density and high seismic hazard intersect.
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Dunbar, P.K., Bilham, R.G., Laituri, M.J. (2003). Earthquake Loss Estimation for India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators. In: Beer, T., Ismail-Zadeh, A. (eds) Risk Science and Sustainability. NATO Science, vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0167-0_13
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