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The evacuation was a result of growing fear after a temple collapsed, in addition to the cracks that appeared in hundreds of houses in the Indian Himalayan town of Joshimath.
Human activities such as groundwater removal and other natural causes are leading to sinking of the Earth's surface and the phenomenon will affect 635 million people, mostly in Asia, with a total exposed Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $9.78 trillion in the next four years, warn researchers.