Vulnerability to Landslides

In India , landslides are a serious natural hazard that cause significant loss of life as well as harm to communication systems, populated areas, agricultural fields, and forested areas. A conservative estimate of the financial loss for the entire nation is in the millions of dollars per year at the present pricing based on the overall experience with landslides.

Landslides:

• Due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, India has the largest mountain chain on earth, the Himalayas. Because the Indian plate is moving toward China from the north, continuous stress is placed on the rocks, making them brittle, weak, and prone to landslides and earthquakes.
• Natural disasters are attributed to the slow motion of the Indian crust, which moves roughly five centimetres per year. Unprecedented catastrophes can result from certain landslides.
• About 15% of India’s surface is affected by landslides and avalanches, which affect a sizable portion of the nation. The Himalayas, the northeastern mountain ranges, the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Eastern Ghats, and the Vindhyas are where they are most common.
• In the Himalayas, landslides are of every name, description, and description – big and small, quick and creeping, ancient and new. The Northeastern area suffers from landslides that are bewildering and diverse.
• Continual landslides in West Bengal’sDarjeeling district cause economic damage to Nagaland, Assam, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh, costing billions of rupees each year.
• Besides Nilgiris, which has a high likelihood of landslides, the second variety of landslides classified by a lateritic cap threatens the Western Ghats in the South, along steep hillsides overlooking the Konkan coast.
• There are several distinct landslide hazard zones in various states of India, but one may notice that the Himalayan mountains in Northwest and Northeast India, as well as the Western Ghats, are two areas of high vulnerability and landslide proneness.

Due to its unique qualities, the Himalayas have a history of landslides that is unparalleled by any other mountain range in the world. Landslides frequently happen at the western gate as well.