A Global Analysis of the Relationship Between Urbanization and Fatalities in Earthquake-Prone Areas

doi: 10.1007/s13753-021-00385-z

• Chunyang He^1,2 , 
• Qingxu Huang^{1,2 ,  ,}  , 
• Xuemei Bai³ , 
• Derek T. Robinson⁴ , 
• Peijun Shi^1,5,6 , 
• Yinyin Dou⁷ , 
• Bo Zhao⁸ , 
• Jubo Yan⁹ , 
• Qiang Zhang^1,5 , 
• Fangjin Xu^1,2 , 
• James Daniell¹⁰

• 1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China;

• 2. School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China;

• 3. Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia;

• 4. Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada;

• 5. Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China;

• 6. School of Geographical Science, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810016, China;

• 7. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China;

• 8. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA;

• 9. School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639818, Singapore;

• 10. Geophysical Institute and Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344, Karlsruhe, Germany