Among the great Indian earthquakea during the present century. the earthquake of 1905 in Himachal Pradeah took the maximum toll of 20,000 human lives besides major property damage in Kangra valley and adjoining areas. The other significant earthquakes in Himachal’ Pradesh occurred in Chamba district (1945) and Kinnaur region (1975) which also caused lots of damage. Also two earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 which were widely felt in Himachal Prade’h and cauaec1 some damage in Dharamsala town, occurred in the yean 1968 and 1978. Of these, the mechanism of Kangra earthquake was associated with the main boundary thruat (Middlemisa, 1910). However the only reliable solutions based on instrumental data from a cloae network of Itations as well as teloselsma was reported for the earthquakes of 1968 near Dharamsala and 1975 near Kinnaur (Chaudhury et al 1974: Chaudhury and Srivastava, 1977). The faulting associated with these earthquakes were thunt and normal type respectively. A look at the seismicity map (Fig. I) for the period 1965·1974 prepared for Himachal Pradesh and neighbourhood (Sriva’tava and Chaudhury, 1979) suggests that there is a well marked concentration of seismic activity bounded by the grid 32.33°N. 76-77°E. Thus stress concentration in Kangra region is continuing even 75 years after the occurrence of the great earthquake of 1905. The recent earthquakes in the region even though of slight to moderate intensity suggest that the mechanism of earthquakes needs be undentood in detail keeping in view the possibility of reccurrence of more damaging earthquakes in the region due to higher concentration of stresses.