Many people like to spend their free time traveling around the world. While it can be an incredible experience, some destinations present more dangers than others due to their vulnerability to natural disasters.
What are the most dangerous places in the world? A journalistic research company, Journal Reportworked alongside Intersec carry out a study to classify the most dangerous tourist destinations exposed to natural disasters.
Several key factors were used to determine which are the most dangerous places to visit. Some of them are frequency of earthquakes per year, average population affected by floods, volcanic activity and air quality index.
From there, a composite score on a scale of 0 to 100 was used. Japan won first place with a score of 87.
“This ranking takes into account factors such as the sophistication of monitoring technology, the comprehensiveness of hazard coverage, and the effectiveness of alert delivery systems. Importantly, all of these countries are continually working to improve their disaster monitoring and early warning capabilities,” an Intersec spokesperson said in a statement.
Japan, one of the most seismically active regions in the world, faces around 1,500 earthquakes per year. Mexico, which has the most earthquakes on average at 1,632, comes fourth on the list with a composite score of 62.
For Japan, seismic activity contributes to the high volcanic activity index of 122, which is the highest on the list. The air quality index of 53 is also the lowest.
No. 2 on the list with a composite score of 76.5 is Indonesia.
Their volcanic activity index of 120 is the second; The only other country with a triple-digit score in this category is Russia, which comes in 5th overall, with a score of 117.
Indonesia is one of four destinations on the list to experience more than 1,000 earthquakes per year; the last is Chile, which ranks third overall with a composite score of 68.5 and 1,024 earthquakes.
When traveling to remote islands in Indonesia's volcanic regions, extreme caution should be exercised. More than 635,000 people are also affected by flooding each year, and an average air quality index of 152 has been recorded.
The current highest average population affected by floods and average air quality index belongs to destination #6, India, with 4,835,259 and 188 inhabitants respectively. Their composite index is 59.
The top 10 is completed by China, the Philippines, Greece and Peru with composite indices of 55, 53, 52 and 51.5.
