The -79.0 state E of Himachal Pradesh is located between 30.3° – 33.0° N latitude and Alpide-Himalayan longitude seismic in the western Himalayas. Seismically it lies in the great Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, belt India, running from Alps mountains through Yugoslavia, Turkey, through the state of Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. The terrain is hilly all south to the tall snow the ranges varying from the Shivaliks in the rivers, Sutlej and Beas and clad their Pir Panjals in the north. These are traversed by major earthquakes occurring in tributeries. The state has not only been shaken by its territory but also in the neighbouring areas of Jammu of and damaging Kashmir in the north, Tibet in the east and U.P.. Hills in the south-east. A number earthquakes have occurred in the H.P. territory during this century for the which famous information 1905 Kangra is well recorded. Information about earthquake occurrence before earthquake is not, however, available and is a matter of research a profile through of the seismic historical hazard and archival records. The aim of this paper is to present in the state, the types of prevalent construction, their cal vulnerability earthquake to of the Magnitude earthquake hazards and the resulting seismic risk from a hypothetisame area in which as large 8.0 on Richter scale, if it were to occur now in the seismic risk existing in the state, an earthquake had occurred in 1905. In view of the high for. The important activity major earthquake disaster mitigation effort is called components for earthquake disaster reduction are also discussed with relevance to the state of Himachal Pradesh.