Since the beginning of the 21st century the impacts of earthquakes and other geohazard-related disasters have risen rapidly: the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunamis, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and induced landslides, the 2010 Haiti earthquake followed by a cholera outbreak, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunamis and flooding followed by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake and landslides (e.g., Ismail-Zadeh et al., 2014; Cutter et al., 2015). The vulnerability of our civilization to geohazard events is still growing partly due to the increase in the number of vulnerable objects and clustering...
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