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February 17, 2009
If you are looking to live safely and have no worries about natural disasters affecting you or your way of life, I have one word of advice. Avoid these 10 cities as they are the U.S. cities most susceptible to natural disasters.
The criteria that SustainLane using information from Risk Management Solutions to determine how dangerous the cities are to live in from the ill effects of Mother Nature are hurricanes, major flooding, catastrophic hail, tornado super-outbreaks, and earthquakes. They also looked at the potential frequency of disasters as well as the extent of damage to the individual cities.
1 – Miami, FL
2 – New Orleans, LA
3 – Oakland, CA
4 – San Francisco, CA
5 – Honolulu, HI
6 – San Jose, CA
7 (tied) – Los Angeles, CA*
7 (tied) – Houston, TX*
8 – Long Beach, CA
9 (tied) – Tulsa
9 (tied) – Oklahoma City, OK*
9 (tied) – Columbus, OH*
Source: SustainLane.
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