The location of the epicenter. If the epicenter is located miles underground, the surface damage will not be as extensive as it would have been if the epicenter were down a few feet.
Despite having an extreme climate, the Thar Desert can provide development opportunities. These include: Mining - the desert has valuable reserves of minerals such as feldspar, phospherite, gypsum and kaolin.
Hard to say; Indonesia is in a very active seismic zone, also, but by virtue of its larger size than Japan, it has more total earthquakes. Which country has the most earthquakes per unit area? This would probably be Tonga, Fiji, or Indonesia since they are all in extremely active seismic areas along subduction zones. But, Indonesia and India are among the countries with the most people at risk.
The first one is wrong because they were still in disarray and revolution at the time being. They couldn't quite do this at the time due to those two problems.