Diagrams for James Jackson
The Fatal Attraction Between Cities and Earthquakes
The world distribution of earthquakes. Each earthquake indicates an active fault.
The faults occur in narrow bands in and on the edge of the oceans and are dispersed throughout the Alpine-Himalayan belt.
The distribution of earthquakes in Asia indicating a complex network of active faults.
Earthquakes that killed more than ten thousand people in the last 1,000 years.
Earthquakes that killed more than ten thousand people from 1000 to 2008 AD with trade routes.
Histogram showing the number of earthquakes for each century of the last millennium that killed more than ten thousand people.
All diagrams courtesy of James Jackson