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Recent developments toward earthquake risk reduction in India [1]

A developing country like India, with a variety of building practices and social and economic structure, needs to evolve its own strategies for seismic hazard evaluation. Occurrence of few damaging earthquakes during the last decade has pointed to our shortcoming in risk reduction programmes.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2000
Anand S. Arya [2]
Current Science [3]
79
9
1270-1277
Tags:
Earthquakes [4], Natural Disasters [5], India [6], Disaster Management [7], Earth Quake Proof Housing [8], Building Materials [9]
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