  In this paper, we explore the analogy between the refugees' drownings in the
sea and the earthquakes' occurrences and focus on the aspect that characterizes
the statistics of their spatial and temporal successions. The former is shown
to parallel the spatial distribution of consecutive drowning events with the
difference that the latter exhibits short-range behavior below $\kappa = 4km$
and it is characterized by scale-free statistics, with a critical exponent
$\delta \approx 0.5$, falling within the range of the earthquakes' $\delta =
0.65 \pm 0.20$, as well as finite size scaling beyond $\kappa = 4km$, while the
distribution of events' rates exhibits no similarity with that of the
earthquakes. Finally, the events' velocity distribution is also recovered.
$\kappa$ is suspected to be related to the radar and mobile network's coverage
ranges and thus effectively represents a cut-off in the ability of picking up
signals on drownings in the sea.
