Earthquakes' Toll (IMAGE)

University of Iowa

Earthquakes' Toll

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The image shows the evolution of earthquake response products that detail the expected number of fatalities for the 2018 Indonesia earthquake. The first two rows show the estimates based on seismology approaches, and the third row shows the estimates based on satellite observations. The histograms show predicted numbers of fatalities with the vertical bar indicating the actual number of fatalities. The satellite observations capture this number accurately, while the seismological observations systematically under predicted the number.

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Image courtesy of the UI Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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