Assessing the impact of Syrian refugees on earthquake fatality estimations in southeast Turkey

Wilson, Bradley; Paradise, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

Research article

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19 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 19 Jan 2018

Assessing the impact of Syrian refugees on earthquake fatality estimations in southeast Turkey

Bradley Wilson and Thomas Paradise

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Final revised paper (published on 19 Jan 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 13 Mar 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'RC1 Reply', Bradley Wilson, 12 Apr 2017
  - RC2: 'Re: Universal resilience patterns in complex networks', Gerassimos Papadopoulos, 02 Sep 2017
    - AC2: 'RC2 Reply', Bradley Wilson, 02 Sep 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (20 Sep 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

AR by Bradley Wilson on behalf of the Authors (22 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Nov 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (12 Nov 2017)

ED: Publish as is (28 Nov 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

Short summary

Refugee populations are often unaccounted for in population models used in earthquake fatality estimations. This paper calculates and compares fatality estimations produced with and without refugee populations in southeastern Turkey. Refugee populations added non-negligible contributions to earthquake fatalities at four of five fault locations, increasing total fatalities by 7–27 %. These findings show the importance of including refugee statistics in earthquake fatality estimations.