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In 2010 there were three earthquakes all of magnitude about 8 on the Richter scale that caused totally different impacts: In Chile the earthquake claimed the life of 500 people, affected 3 million, and caused a loss of US$30 billion.

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Ranke, U. (2016). Vulnerability Assessment. In: Natural Disaster Risk Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20675-2_6

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