Earthquakes Have Devasting Health Effects...
Earthquakes have caused over
780,000
deaths in the past decade alone, accounting for nearly 60% of all disaster related mortality, and in 2004, the
tsunami crisis claimed over 200,000 lives. Millions of people are exposed to
earthquakes because many of the most inhabited cities in the world are built on
fault lines, like Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai.
Earthquakes have the ability
to cause need for complex surgical and medical care as medical facilities,
roads, and bridges are destroyed and medical supplies are interrupted. this causes the mortality rate increases, because many
times after earthquakes people panic and happen more earthquake aftershocks.
Earthquakes in Ecuador...
The 2016 earthquake in Ecuador was an earthquake epicenter occurred between Pedernales and Muisne parishes, had a magnitusde 7.9 degrees and affection to various places of the Ecuadorian coast, currently estimated more than 659 and many injured.
