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Global Seismic Embodied Carbon Risk

The first global assessment of the carbon cost of earthquakes

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A PDF poster, as well as a high-resolution PNG of embodied carbon risk calculated globally, is available for direct download under a CC BY-SA license. If your use case does not meet the open license requirements, or if you are interested in obtaining the underlying dataset as a shapefile, please submit a request in our system by clicking on the "License Request", where a specific license will be provided, depending on the use case.