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We visited Japan 3 years ago and it stuck with me how normal earthquakes, alerts for this and tsunamis are.

Like wtf!



Japan is not only the country hit most frequently by a large margin, it is also the country hit by the strongest natural disasters.


It's certainly up there [1]. I didn't realize that Costa Rica and the Philippines were even higher than Japan.

According to [2] the US has the most severe weather in the world, which is interesting. I've certainly experienced some of it, tornadoes are horrifying.

I had a crazy experience in Oklahoma City once where I ran out of my hotel because of an earthquake only to see two funnels on the ground coming towards me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_d...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/05/16/extreme-we...




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