Earthquakes, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis, Etc...
All the natural disasters in the news lately made us wonder what parts of the world were most threatened by things like floods & earthquakes. Massive reinsurer Swiss Re (a reinsurance company sells insurance to insurance companies, allowing them to offload some risks...) has a new report titled "Mind the risk: A global ranking of cities under threat from natural disasters" (pdf) that sheds some light on exactly that. Using their sophisticated modelling software and huge database of past events, they came up with a probabilistic ranking.
There are all kinds of ways to look at the data, but here are some of the most interesting variations.
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The list changes a bit if we look at it by "working days lost". More European and US cities appear on the top 10.
If we look at just earthquake risk, this is what the top 10 looks like for both people affected and working days lost: More
