World's riskiest cities!

[@tokyo 14]

Hurray Japan has a good presence in the top ten!

 

http://www.theguardi...st-cities-world

 

6) Nagoya, Japan: Tsunami risk dominates in the Pacific. The most exposed cities, dotted along the active faults of the western ocean, are in Japan – led by Tokyo-Yokohama and Nagoya, each with around 2.4 million people potentially affected. With 12 million people in total at great risk, tsunamis affect by far the fewest people of the great five natural disasters analysed here – but the death tolls can be enormous. Photograph: Japan Ground Self-Defence Force 10th Division/Reuters

 

4) Osaka-Kobe, Japan: Osaka-Kobe is home to 14.6 million people living under the threat of earthquakes such as the one that killed thousands of people in 1995. It also suffers from brutal storms and the risk of river flooding. And then there are the storm surges, in which heavy winds from typhoons of the kind that hit east Asia whip up gigantic waves: the metropolitan area’s location on a large coastal plain means three million people are at risk. It is also the third-most tsunami-prone city in the world. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters

 

and top of the charts!

 

1) Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan: With 37 million inhabitants living under the threat of earthquakes, monsoons, river floods and tsunami, the Tokyo-Yokohama region is by far the riskiest in the world: an estimated 80% of Tokyoites, or 29 million, are potentially exposed at any one time to a very large earthquake. Japan is also the country most exposed to tsunami risk, as the country’s urban centres are dotted with an almost perverse accuracy along the Ring of Fire, the active faults of the western Pacific. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 devastated both Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,800 people.

[pie-eater 207]

Have we confirmed that these 'three' cities are all on the island of Japan?

[best skier in hakuba 5]

Congrats Tokyo!

 

 

I wonder when it's going to happen.

[NoFakie 45]

An Abetastic result. The big man is probably dying to get his blue overalls on and show us he's the boss.

 

The same number as a big one hitting Tokyo probably die somewhere else every year thanks to PM2.5 and other pollution, but hey, who's counting?

[Tubby Beaver 209]

An Abetastic result. The big man is probably dying to get his blue overalls on and show us he's the boss.

 

He's a true man of the workers

[muikabochi 208]

Scary to think it'll be pretty big here too when Tokyo does it's big wobble too.

[Alexander L 80]

Hold on, is that 5 cities on the island of Japan?

[Alexander L 80]

'cept Tokyo, as Tokyo isn't a city is it.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Yeah Tokyo isn't technically counted as a city.....I can't remember what they said it was...municipality?!.....but they counted it separate to the other cities

[Alexander L 80]

Please find out, we need to know.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Wiki tells u

[Alexander L 80]

to go

[kokodoko 67]

Phnom Penh is pretty dangerous with the traffic. lots of people get killed on the roads..

[Chriselle 158]

Well...I like living on the edge..

[Alexander L 80]

Phnom Penh is pretty dangerous with the traffic. lots of people get killed on the roads..

 

any incident there would be a handful of casualties at worse. Whereas, on the island of Japan, there could be hundreds of thousands from one incident. Riskeeeeee.

[7-11 2]

Well...I like living on the edge..

 

Aren't you literally on the edge, by the sea, Chriselle?!

[Jerro 0]

How long overdue is the Tokyo Big One now? The more the time rolls on....

[Alexander L 80]

I saw a program called "the next megaquake", it didn't say when.

[634-maru 4]

Itsu kite mo, okashi-kunai

[BagOfCrisps 24]

Wonder which in the 'first world' are the most dangerous. You know, like you might get shot or stabbed.

[Alexander L 80]

I vote Detroit

[muikabochi 208]

I heard it was Miami.

[Alexander L 80]

Ah...

San Pedro Sula, Honduras 169.30 homicides per 100,000 residents

 

[Mick Rich 78]

Funny you should say that because I was going to suggest Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, as a result of experiencing my one and only street gunfire incident when I visited there. Scary as!!

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Who did u kill?