The European Commission has release its latestAtlas of the Human Planet 2017report focusing on the spheric vulnerability to the dangers of the natural world . And thing are not looking good for gazillion of people worldwide .
The study focuses on six born hazards : seism , volcanoes , tsunamis , torrent , tropical cyclone wind , and cyclone storm surges . Earthquakes are the hazard with the mellow potential for dupe , as 2.7 billion people – one in three – are now unwrap to them worldwide . The telephone number of people that inhabit at - jeopardy area has almost doubled in the last 40 eld , with 25 per centum of Europeans last in a seismically participating area .
Next up is floods . One billion people across 155 body politic are exposed to deadly floodlight . It remain the most frequent natural catastrophe and tumid - scale deforestation and changes to the topography is aggravating the billet . Almost 770 million people in risk of flooding live in Asia , 56 million in Europe , and about 14 million in North America .
According to the report , more than 400 million live within 100 kilometers ( 62 knot ) of one of the 220 most dangerous volcano . And a good ball of those people living near volcanoes are in coastal areas where the chance of a tsunami is also quite high . The inhabited area give away to tsunami jeopardy are four times large in Japan than the break realm in China , the 2d country most at danger from tsunamis .
China and Japan are also the two country most at risk from substantial cyclone jazz , which 50 million Taiwanese people also at risk from a storm surge , where the sea level is dead increase due to the cyclone .
The report is intelligibly very bleak but it is alsovery important . It will help scientists and policy Almighty understand how certain risk of infection and dangers have changed in the last 40 years and help oneself to model and predict natural cataclysm patterns in the future . It will also help get hold the most efficient policy based on resilient community .
The report is establish on the most complete dataset on human settlement , known as the Global Human Settlement Layer ( GHSL ) . The atlas will be presented during the 2017Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reductionmeeting in Cancun , Mexico , this week .
The scientist from the EU Joint Research Centre combined Earth observations from space , preceding jeopardy , and state - of - the - art modeling to use the GHSL to help value the risk 1000000000000 of people are exposed to . With many innate disaster still being difficult ( or impossible ) to forebode , this could be all-important in convincing politician to safeguard the lives at hazard .
