4 Indian Cities Highly Susceptible to Disasters

1. Mumbai:

Mumbai, the financial capital of India is the world’s fourth largest city with 20 million people and 6.7 million slum dwellers. As per the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), it is one of the highly vulnerable cities in the world in terms of natural disasters like floods, storms surges and earthquakes, since the city lies on an earthquake fault-line and just less than a metre above the sea-level.
The flood in 2005 was one of the worst natural calamities to occur in this city as the 900 mm heavy rainfall took away the lives of at least 5,000 people. The rainfall was believed to be the highest ever on a single day in over a century. The study published in Nature Climate Change estimated that Mumbai would lose $6.4 billion every year due to natural disasters. Any serious devastation in a city like Mumbai will drastically affect the economy of the country since this city accounts for almost 40 percent of India's tax revenue.

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