Dying in Earthquakes: A Tale of Umpteen Tremors | Psychology Today UK

The cause of earthquake deaths is then corruption, discrimination, apathy, other priorities, inequity, and lack of caring. That is, the cause of earthquake deaths is not the earthquake. To answer the question at the beginning, in modern times, effectively zero people have earthquakes as their cause of death.

Dying in Earthquakes: A Tale of Umpteen Tremors

Earthquakes don't kill people, but collapsing infrastructure does.

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