ABSTRACT
Earthquakes, related landslides and tsunamis are among South Asia’s most intense natural hazards. This region will be home to close to 2 billion people by mid-century — the largest regional concentration of people in all of human history. Over 1.5 billion of this population will live in India, where approximately two-thirds of the landmass is exposed to geo-hazards, placing a larger population at risk than the Pacific ‘ring of fire’ (Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council [BMTPC] 2006).
