5. San Francisco Bay Port-au-Prince
1989 ‘Loma Prieta’ 2010 Haiti
• M=7.1 • M=7.0
•7.4 M exposed population • 10 M in Haiti
• 6,688 p/km2 (SF) • 28,353 p/km2 (P-au-P)
• 63 deaths • 300,000 deaths
• Bay Area GDP- $300 B • Haiti GDP- $11 B
• $5.6 B in losses • $8 B in losses
•42 Fire Stations • 2 Fire Stations in Haiti
10. What about the hazard?
Geohazard lower income
nation
higher income
nation
increasing mortality
increasing economic losses
11. 1
All Disasters
Drought
Death (log scale, normalized)
Earthquake High per capita GDP
Extreme Temperature Low per capita GDP
Flood
10-1 Mass Movement
Storm
Volcano
Wildfire
10-2
10-3
no deaths
10-5 10 -4 10 -3 10 -2 10 -1 1
Economic Loss (log scale, normalized)
12. Medium income nations
High
Low income nations income nations
GDP/capita US $2,500 <GDP/capita > US $10,000
< US $2,500 GDP/capita < US 10,000
n=658 n=380
n=182
Drought
Earthquake
Extreme Temperature
Flood
Mass Movement
Storm
Volcano
Wildfire
no deaths
16. Earthquakes affect poorer nations with higher
mortality and comparatively less economics
losses.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
May 2010
17. Extreme temperatures affect wealthy
countries disproportionately- higher
mortality and economic losses.
In the ‘global south’ temperature swings
aren’t so extreme.
18. Storms in wealthy nations have higher
economic losses and poorer nations higher
mortality from storms that cause a similar level
of economic loss.
19. Floods are responsible for the most disasters-
wealthy nations limit death toll while
economic losses continue to climb.