British newspaper The Guardian has released a top 10 list of the world’s riskiest cities to live in terms of natural disasters; and China features twice. Shanghai comes in at number 8 due to the risk of flooding with 11.7 million people directly in danger if a flood does take place. At number 3 is China’s Pearl River Delta. The area, consisting of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Macau and Guangzhou and a population of 42 million people, is at a risk of floods, storm surges and cyclonic wind damage.
The top 10 in descending order are: Tehran, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Kolkata, Nagoya, Jakarta, Osaka-Kobe, Pearl River Delta, Manila and Tokyo-Yokohama. Asia features heavily on the list as Japan holds down three spots, including the number one most risky place to live.
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What? Are you already in any of the areas listed? Don't worry, all those areas are already disasters by themselves without nature adding on. I just spent 9 hours yesterday in Guangzhou airport because of the weather. I'm can't say I'm not glad to have moved out further west.
Mar 31, 2014 22:41 Report Abuse
Risk of bad storms was one of the reasons why Guangzhou scored so highly. I'm not surprised it was in the top 10. I always point out that as far as I know, when it comes to nature the UK is one of the safest places I know. We get occasional flooding and that's about it. No volcanoes, no hurricanes, earthquakes are really, really minor and the only poisonous animal we have is a snake you really, really have to annoy before it will bite you and which usually kill you even if it does. So I wonder which cities were rated safest.
Apr 01, 2014 13:31 Report Abuse
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