Historically, by far the greatest casualties occur when an earthquake causes a large tsunami. The Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami are a prime, and horrific, example.
BTW, check out this vid, taken ~ 500 km away from these Venezuelan quakes. Maybe skip “in” a few minutes. The right geology and soils can carry quake energy a long way...
I’m glad I wasn’t on that shoreline, building or no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M8UpZYz4ss
Impressive video, thanks!
Trinidad.
I did a project on the Venezuela side of the Gulf of Paria. The foundation is mud for hundreds of feet. To build mooring dolphins we lowered, without resistance, 9 5/8 casing nearly 300 feet. All that earth eroded from around the Tapuis went somewhere.
Try building facilities for seismic activity on such terrain.
“murphy’s War” was filmed in the area we were working.