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In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is ____ years.
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$\begin{align*} 0.04 \times n &= 1\\ n &= \frac{1}{0.04}\\ &=25 \end{align*}$

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