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The vulnerability of the human civilisation to natural disasters is growing due to proliferation of high-risk objects, clustering of population, and destabilisation of large cities. Today a single earthquake may take up to a million lives, cause material damage up to several billions EURs with chain reaction expanding to world-wide economic depression, and trigger major ecological catastrophe (e.g. several Chernobyl-type calamities at once). In many developing countries the damage from earthquakes consumes all the increase in the GNP.
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Ismail-Zadeh, A.T. (2003). Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians. In: Beer, T., Ismail-Zadeh, A. (eds) Risk Science and Sustainability. NATO Science, vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0167-0_12
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