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Recent Activities Historical Database India Seismic Map Interaction»	The Indian sub-continent is subjected to varying degrees of earthquake hazard demonstrated by the fact that more than 650 earthquakes having magnitude above 5 on Richter scale have been recorded during the last one century. Majority of these are located in the Himalayan frontal area. Four great earthquakes i.e. the 1897 Shillong earthquake, the 1905 Kangra earthquake, the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake and 1950 Assam earthquake of magnitude above 8 on Richter scale occurred in this belt in a short period of 53 years. During the 1990-2005, India suffered the four destructive earthquakes that affected both the Himalayas and Peninsular India. Remote Sensing and GIS provide a database from which the evidence left behind by disaster can be combined with other geological and topographical database to arrive at hazard map. The area affected by earthquakes are generally large, but they are restricted to well known regions (Plate contacts). The availability of High resolution data like the CARTOSATcan be made use for post-disaster assessment in the dense urban clusters. These data gives us synoptic overview of the area affected by the disaster. This indirectly gives us clue on the disaster assessment from the epicentre. These data can be made use to create a very large scale base information of the terrain for carrying out the disaster assessment and for relief measures. It can also map some geomorphic changes, if any, in the micro level after the earthquake for micro-seismic zonation.
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