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.