The international workshop on “Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation” was held in Guwahati, India during 7-8 December 2007. This proceedings contains 5 keynote lectures, 11 invited lectures and 44 contributed papers presented in the workshop under the following broad themes:

• 1.Engineering Seismology and Seismic Hazard
• 2.Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
• 3.Structural Earthquake Engineering
• 4.other related issues

This book reflects the present state-of-the-art of estimation of various earthquake hazards and their mitigation. It will be of extreme interest to engineers, researchers, scientists, faculty members and students working in these areas.