EDITORIAL - High-risk country
(The Philippine Star) Updated September 13, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (6)
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All countries are vulnerable to natural disasters. Japan is still in the process of recovering from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. The US East Coast was recently devastated by a powerful hurricane.
Yet those countries are not on the list of those most vulnerable to the destruction caused by natural disasters. Iceland, which has experienced two of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recent years, is in fact listed in the World Risk Index as one of the five countries with the lowest vulnerability to disasters.
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