Talk about a Ring of Fire.
|Map developer Ramiro Gomez has created an interactive map of theworld that's color-coded based on the United Nations' World RiskIndex, showing which countries have the highest exposure to naturaldisaster risk.
|Safer countries are in lighter shades of pink, more dangerousnations are closer to red.
|In short, and we generally all knew this already, the southPacific is a dangerous place to live. The tiny island nationof Vanuatu off the coast of Australia is the deadliest countryin the world, based on the UN's metrics, with a 36.43% disasterrisk. Tonga, which is nearby, comes in as the second-deadliest at28.23%.
|How does the rest of the world stack up?
|Click on the map below for a larger version, or head over toGomez'ssite for the full interactive map.
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