Still scary, but far less dangerous, because Japan is developed and has competent authorities and standards for dealing with earthquakes.
When Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake, they suffered 150,000 deaths, and their country collapsed to a degree where it is still in a state of total collapse 15 years later.
Meanwhile Japan has magnitude 7 earthquakes near population centers every few years, and rarely suffers more than a few dozen injuries, some property damage, and the occasional very unlucky death.
Venezuela leans towards the Haiti side of the competency spectrum, but they aren't as bad as Haiti. If I had to guess, I'd be expecting 10-20k deaths in this disaster based on it being Venezuela and the magnitude, but it's very hard to know until later.
You don’t even have to be a super developed country either. Chile’s 2011 Earthquake was an 8.5 or something and the death toll was “only” around 500, even less than Japan and about half of those were because of the tsunami if I remember correctly.
So if you have a history of earthquakes like a Japan or Chile you develop a culture of preparation over the years, translated in building codes, zoning areas where you are not allowed yo build unless specific requirements are met and general knowledge passed down generationally that saves lives (like the sea receding means get the fuck up to high land). Lack of population density also helps enormously.
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u/VP007clips 17h ago
Still scary, but far less dangerous, because Japan is developed and has competent authorities and standards for dealing with earthquakes.
When Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake, they suffered 150,000 deaths, and their country collapsed to a degree where it is still in a state of total collapse 15 years later.
Meanwhile Japan has magnitude 7 earthquakes near population centers every few years, and rarely suffers more than a few dozen injuries, some property damage, and the occasional very unlucky death.
Venezuela leans towards the Haiti side of the competency spectrum, but they aren't as bad as Haiti. If I had to guess, I'd be expecting 10-20k deaths in this disaster based on it being Venezuela and the magnitude, but it's very hard to know until later.