A better understanding of geo-risks - focusing on the Andes

A better understanding of geo-risks - focusing on the Andes

More and more people around the world are flocking to  cities, creating densely populated regions. This also means that natural disasters pose a threat to a greater number of people, and that risk has been rising for decades worldwide. A catastrophe is rarely an isolated event: flooding can precipitate a landslide; an earthquake may destroy electricity and water supplies, compounding the situation for those affected as well as emergency services on the ground. The possible consequences of such escalation chains were evident in the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, in which an earthquake triggered a catastrophic tsunami along the Japanese coast that subsequently caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima power plant.


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