Vulnerability vs. Resilience in Earthquake-prone Countries

[beijingwalker]

Vulnerability vs. Resilience in Earthquake-prone Countries​

by Katharina Buchholz,
Feb 8, 2023

According to the 2022 World Risk Index, Turkey is only reaching a mediocre score for disaster resilience. The country that was ravaged by devastating earthquakes claiming thousands of lives this week is attested a "high" vulnerability in the most recent report released by the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.

The vulnerability score is further broken down into three categories - social inequality and lack of development, insufficient political stability, health care and infrastructure as well as lack of progress. Especially in the second category,

Turkey was rated as having a "very high" vulnerability to natural disasters. On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged that there had been some delays in the country's initial response to the quake.

Nations that like Turkey experience many earthquakes - for example China, Japan, the U.S. or Iran - are all rated as highly exposed to natural disaster by the World Risk Index. Syria is labeled as having a "high" risk of natural catastrophe. While developed nations Japan and the U.S. score lowest for vulnerability, China also considered relatively well prepared.

Turkey's overall vulnerability, however, stands at 29.58 points, more severe than that of Iran (27.34 points). This is despite the fact that the country ranks far ahead of Iran on the Human Development Index. Other nations with very high disaster risk which are less developed but rated better prepared than Turkey included Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Mexico and Honduras.

Indonesia's, India's and the Philippines' vulnerability received worse ratings than Turkey's. Syria - ranked among the 25 percent of the least developed countries in the world - was ranked as having "very high" vulnerability throughout.

Infographic: Vulnerability vs. Resilience in Earthquake-prone Countries

This chart shows natural disaster vulnerability ratings of selected Earthquake-prone countries on the World Risk Index.

www.statista.com

 

[beijingwalker]

The Countries Hit by the Most Earthquakes​

by Katharina Buchholz,
Feb 6, 2023

More than 2,300 people lost their lives in severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, CNN reported close to 10:00 a.m. EST Monday. The quakes that started around 4 a.m. local time destroyed thousands of buildings in the region around the epicenter near Southeastern Turkish town Nurdagi. A reading of 7.8 on the Richter scale was reached.

The earthquake activity was one of the strongest in this location in a century and was caused by tensions between the Eurasian and the African plates in one of the most geologically active zones in the world. Since 1990 alone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has registered 58 earthquakes in the region - four of them with a magnitude of 7 or more, which are considered major earthquakes usually causing serious damage. Another country from the region, Iran, is also among the countries with the most earthquake activity in the last three decades.

Two large Asian countries were affected by the most quakes in the given time frame: China (182) and Indonesia (161). More heavily affected places in Asia are Japan, India and the Philippines. With 23 tremors, Italy is one of the most endangered regions in Europe.

Infographic: The Countries Hit by the Most Earthquakes

This chart shows the countries with the highest number of registered earthquakes between 1990 and 2022.

www.statista.com

 

[BHAN85]

The amount of earthquakes is not a useful information.

The important is when earthquakes happen in populated zones and when they are in the surface and destructive.

One million earthquakes in the desert are not important.

 

[gavanHoverswell]

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