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There are plenty of places without any particular natural risks, e.g., New York City and London, both of which standard and dull four-seasons temperate climates
by quotemstr 7y ago
There are plenty of places without any particular natural risks, e.g., New York City and London, both of which standard and dull four-seasons temperate climates and dead geology.
- pbourke 7y agoThere was significant flooding in NYC just a few years ago due to Hurricane Sandy.
- joshuahughes 7y agoA large part of London is built on floodplain though, hence the need for the enormous Thames barrier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier). Flooding is a pretty big natural risk here.
- thisisnico 7y agoLiving in Ontario the only thing I'm worried about is minor flooding, nothing on the scale that you see on the coasts. Storms (Nothing like in the US), Snow, Rain, Sun. No real major catastrophes possible.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI'll point out that weather related deaths in Ontario are higher than earthquake related deaths in California.
- dehrmann 7y agoNYC earthquake risk is on-par with the Bay Area because while the magnitude of the quakes would be lower, the bedrocks transmits the energy better, the buildings are under-engineered for earthquakes, and it has a higher population density.
- quotemstr 7y agoNYC is not close to any major geological activity. The east coast, unlike the west coast, has been quiet for, what, 60 million years? The Appalachian mountains are worn-down nubs. The closest seismic zones are, what, the Caribbean and the New Madrid area of Missouri, IIRC.
- Decade 7y agoDepending on how you define “major” (I just saw a Twitter status arguing that San Francisco does not get “truly big” earthquakes because it’s a transform boundary and not a subduction zone), New York has a bunch of faults and does get significant geological activity. https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1183984933733158913 https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1183984933733158913 https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/new-york-city-is-overdue-for-a-major-earthquake/ https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/new-york-city-is-overdue-for-a...
- dragonwriter 7y ago> There are plenty of places without any particular natural risks, e.g., New York City I suspect New York City has more deaths per capita over time from the combination of natural environment events (earthquakes, weather, etc.) than California. It's certainly not free of natural risks.
- dentemple 7y agoBlizzards (including Nor'easters) are a valid, natural danger for NYC and the rest of the Northeastern U.S.