Earthquake Disaster Management in India

Abstract

The fact is that natural disasters are always unexpected events which affect human life as well as nature itself. Earthquakes are one of the natural disasters on this planet which have adversely brought heavy toll on human life and infrastructure. Therefore, mitigation of the devastating damage caused by earthquake is the prime requirement in the life of all human beings. Moreover, earthquakes are always unpredictable, the only option before us is to design and build structures with earthquake resistant which can reduce the loss of property and humans on such occasions. Most of the scholars are agree with the fact that unsafe buildings kill more people than earthquakes in developing countries like India. Now it has become a worldwide problem to take precautions before this natural happening like earthquake in any part of the earth. That is why; earthquake disaster management has become a topic for debate among scholars. Keeping the fact in view, the researcher has highlighted the earthquake disaster management techniques in the present research paper including the scenario of some major earthquake in India.