Fig. 1: Impact of earthquakes on countries in the last two decades.
Relationship between earthquake moment magnitude (Mw) and number of fatalities globally in the last two decades. We highlight seven seismic events in low- and lower-middle-income countries that have experienced earthquakes with Mw > 6.5 and a number of fatalities ≥4000 with green circles together with the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake (red circle). The size of the circles represents the number of displaced people following the eight highlighted events. The gray square markers depict events with a number of fatalities <4000 or not in the considered country income class. Data were derived from the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT)7. The 2018 Central Sulawesi and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquakes triggered tsunamis.
