@tokyo 14 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Have we confirmed that these 'three' cities are all on the island of Japan? Link to post Share on other sites
best skier in hakuba 5 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Congrats Tokyo! I wonder when it's going to happen. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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 Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Scary to think it'll be pretty big here too when Tokyo does it's big wobble too. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Hold on, is that 5 cities on the island of Japan? Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 'cept Tokyo, as Tokyo isn't a city is it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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 Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Please find out, we need to know. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Wiki tells u Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 to go Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Phnom Penh is pretty dangerous with the traffic. lots of people get killed on the roads.. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well...I like living on the edge.. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 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. Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well...I like living on the edge.. Aren't you literally on the edge, by the sea, Chriselle?! Link to post Share on other sites
Jerro 0 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 How long overdue is the Tokyo Big One now? The more the time rolls on.... Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I saw a program called "the next megaquake", it didn't say when. Link to post Share on other sites
634-maru 4 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Itsu kite mo, okashi-kunai Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Wonder which in the 'first world' are the most dangerous. You know, like you might get shot or stabbed. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I vote Detroit Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I heard it was Miami. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Ah... San Pedro Sula, Honduras 169.30 homicides per 100,000 residents Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 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!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Who did u kill? Link to post Share on other sites
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