Description
Rudraprayag and Tehri districts rank first and second in a list of 147 districts. Rudraprayag and Tehri districts in Uttarakhand have the highest landslide density and landslide risk exposure in the country. The two mountainous districts of the Himalayan state appear at the top of a table published as part of the Landslide Atlas of India by the Hyderabad-based National Center for Remote Sensing based on satellite data provided by the Indian Space Research Organization .
The list includes the 13 districts of Uttarakhand which vary from each other in terms of vulnerability to landslides. While Rudraprayag and Tehri districts rank first and second in a list of 147 districts, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar rank last at 146 and 147 respectively.
The famous Kedarnath temple is located in Rudraprayag. It was the epicenter of a massive natural disaster that killed thousands of people in June 2013.
Chamoli district, where Joshimath is struggling with a land subsidence crisis, ranked 19th, Uttarkashi 21st, Pauri 23rd, Dehradun 29th, Bageshwar 50th, Champawat 65th, Nainital 68th, Almora 81st and Pithoragarh on 86.
