Safest cities from natural disasters

[Mosaic]

Originally Posted by classhopper

Bangkok is not safe from flood, but still safe from other natural disasters.

Flood is just a history now for Bangkok.

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by Mosaic

Flood is just a history now for Bangkok.

I don't know but I think Bangkok improved it's sewage system

[Mosaic]

Originally Posted by WANCH

I don't know but I think Bangkok improved it's sewage system

yep and more dams were built outside of Bangkok to retain water from the North.

[Manila-X]

Anyway, as for HK, it's pretty safe though the worst we can get are typhoons. Floods and landslides are also a problem though it's small

[Very Controversial]

Originally Posted by eemreee

Brusells and Ankara

I am not so sure but isn't Ankara in an earthquake zone?

[Mosaic]

Ankara is in an Earthquake zone.

[EtherealMist]

Originally Posted by WANCH

True but aren't blizzards a problem in these cities?

yea there are some blizzards, but they aren't dangerous enough or common enough to be a real threat.

[SGoico]

I'd say Madrid or Sevilla in Spain. No sand storm, tsunamis, earthslides, avalanches, earthquakes, blizzard, tornados, hurricanes or floodings...

Can't remember a natural disaster in either city

[hkskyline]

Doesn't it get very hot in Seville - like 40C hot?

[Zaki]

Originally Posted by London_2006

Even though we're in the most tornado prone country in the world, most are F0-F1 and the strongest are only about F3.

UK isn't the most tornado prone country in the world. Its bangladesh. In fact i dont think UK is even number two but that i am not sure of.

[London_2006]

'Tornadoes
With the amount of media coverage dedicated to American storm-chasers, you'd think the US had the monopoly on these twisters. It doesn't. It might come as a shock, but the United Kingdom is actually the world's most tornado-prone nation.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopi...rricanes.shtml

[SGoico]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

Doesn't it get very hot in Seville - like 40C hot?

Indeed, They reach 40+ quite a few times in summer. Holds the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe, 50ºC. I read somewhere that, Morón (a village close Sevilla city) holds the highest temperature in Europe in the last century, 48ºC but couldn't find any source (and it's too late to google)


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001375.html
http://encarta.msn.com/media_7015086...r_Records.html

The BBC says the highest in Sevilla was 49ºC:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT004250

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

Doesn't it get very hot in Seville - like 40C hot?

If it's hot stay indoors

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by SGoico

Indeed, They reach 40+ quite a few times in summer. Holds the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe, 50ºC. I read somewhere that, Morón (a village close Sevilla city) holds the highest temperature in Europe in the last century, 48ºC but couldn't find any source (and it's too late to google)


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001375.html
http://encarta.msn.com/media_7015086...r_Records.html

The BBC says the highest in Sevilla was 49ºC:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT004250

Who on earth would list Philippines as Oceana

[Chicagoago]

^ The UK gets the most tornadoes per land area (I've also heard the Netherlands, but I'm no expert). The United States gets by far the largest raw number of tornadoes - and because of its geography the most devestating.

[Audiomuse]

Originally Posted by Toadman

Alice Springs: No Earthquakes, same as the majority of the rest of Australia. No bushfires, it's surrounded by desert. No floods, the 'river' is usually dry. No tornados. No cyclones, I'd like to see one try and get to Alice Springs. No blizzards, avalanches, hailstorms, volcanoes

Droughts are the only possible thing.

Canberra is immune from all those except bushfires(2002)

It's hard to find places in Australia which would be immune from drought, because they're all in the tropics and therefore prone to cyclones.

Dust storms!
Yes London and the British Isles are all relatively safe. LUCKY! China, India, U.S., etc are repetitiously hit by hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, flooding, tornados, droughts, etc.
Most unsafe country--U.S.A. and Iran/Indonesia
U.S.A.--Has it all. Ice Storms to volcanoes, to droughts.

[Zaki]

Originally Posted by macon4ever

Dust storms!
Yes London and the British Isles are all relatively safe. LUCKY! China, India, U.S., etc are repetitiously hit by hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, flooding, tornados, droughts, etc.
Most unsafe country--U.S.A. and Iran/Indonesia
U.S.A.--Has it all. Ice Storms to volcanoes, to droughts.

Nah the most unsafe country actually is Bangladesh. Its around the size of NY state and it gets floods, droughts, monsoons, cyclones, tornadoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. On top of that its poor too.

And Japan is another country with a lot of disasters. Typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, and enough other shit.

USA does get a lot of disasters but considering its size its not surprising that it gets such a wide range of disasters. The thing is not all of them happen in the same place and different parts of the US experience different disasters unlike the countries above.

[schreiwalker]

Originally Posted by Chicagoago

^ The UK gets the most tornadoes per land area (I've also heard the Netherlands, but I'm no expert). The United States gets by far the largest raw number of tornadoes - and because of its geography the most devestating.

and since this is a thread devoted to cities, it doesn't seem to make sense to compare the land area of britain to the land area of the US, when almost all of the US tornados happen probably in less than a third of the country. For example, I'm pretty sure that Alaska - which is 7 times bigger than the UK - sees many tornadoes. But that doesn't make Kansas City any safer.

[Toronto06]

new orleans..........lol only joking

Toronto is pretty safe...havent had anything huge happen besides the odd snow storm or heavy rainfall once in a blue moon

[♣628.finst]

Originally Posted by jlshyang

Kuala Lumpur and all the other cities in Malaysia.

Free from all major disasters [ Earthquakes, Tornados, Cyclones, Tsunamis, Volcanos etc]

I think cyclones are frequent in Malaysia and surrounding countries. No earthquakes or bushfire? Western Malaysia is just 200-300 km off volcanoes in Indonesia.