Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> I'd never have expected to read "major world cities" and "Naples" in
>> one sentence :)
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> You're right, Naples isn't as large as the others and really
> shouldn't be in that list.  I only mentioned it because of the
> unusually large threat it faces.  It's probably up there in world
> cities if you look at the probability of the threat times the number
> of people likely to die from it.

That would be "threatened cities" rather than "world cities". Anyway,
while there are quite a number o cities that are somewhat endangered,
there are quite a few with low threat levels -- probably more than those
with high threat levels, you just never hear from them :)

Besides that are of course the man-made threats, and that's a whole
different story then. S=E3o Paulo, Brazil, for example, is partially
flooded every summer. This is not due to a natural disaster -- the
summer rains are just that, summer rains, as they have been for most of
known history --, but due to really bad urban planning.

Gerhard

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