With respect to India, consider the following statements:

ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, has created ‘Landslide Atlas of India’.

Sikkim recorded highest number of landslide events in the past 25 years.

Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand has the highest landslide density.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, has created ‘Landslide Atlas of India’. It is a database of landslide-prone regions of India based on events during 1998 – 2022, primarily along the Himalayas and the Western Ghats.
India is among the top 4 countries with highest landslide risk, where for every year the estimated loss of life per 100 km²is greater than one.
Excluding snow covered areas, approximately 12.6% of the country’s geographical land area (0.42 million sq. km) is prone to landslides.
Mizoram recorded 12,385 landslide events highest number of landslide events in the past 25 years.
Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand has the highest landslide density and topped the list of all 147 districts in 17 states and 2 UTs.
The inventory database of landslides is available in a web GIS platform in the Bhuvan portal.

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ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, has created ‘Landslide Atlas of India’. It is a database of landslide-prone regions of India based on events during 1998 – 2022, primarily along the Himalayas and the Western Ghats.
India is among the top 4 countries with highest landslide risk, where for every year the estimated loss of life per 100 km²is greater than one.
Excluding snow covered areas, approximately 12.6% of the country’s geographical land area (0.42 million sq. km) is prone to landslides.
Mizoram recorded 12,385 landslide events highest number of landslide events in the past 25 years.
Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand has the highest landslide density and topped the list of all 147 districts in 17 states and 2 UTs.
The inventory database of landslides is available in a web GIS platform in the Bhuvan portal.

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