Earthquake fatality measure offers new way to estimate impact on countries
Credit: Franklin Peña Gutierrez from Pexels A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country’s population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experienced the greatest impact from fatalities in the past five centuries. The new impact measure, introduced in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) by
Arden Kazmierczak
February 16, 2024