Twelve out of the top 20 countries ranked for their disaster risk are Asia/Oceania countries. Ultimately we can conclude the frequency of natural disasters in these countries is higher than most countries, and the people of the countries have regular hazard warnings and threats weighing them down. Concern on the impact of an inevitable disaster can revolve around material objects that help sustain life and quantifiable wellbeing including; home damage or destroyed, access to clean water and food, business damage and lives of people in the community lost. All these quantifiable areas can overwhelm people residing in disaster prone areas and give them unreasonable amounts of worry and stress, depleting their happiness, which is a component of human wellbeing. Frequency of Natural Disasters |
The area of which Oceania/ Asia countries are predominately located above and around the fault lines of the converging tectonic plates and in doing so cop the brunt of the tremors and movement from below in the form of natural disasters.
The Philippines, Vanuatu and Tonga are the 3 top countries prone to natural disasters within a year and are all located along the Pacific and Eurasian plates also known as the Ring of Fire due to the volcanic eruptions, typhoon belt, earthquakes, landslides, floods and tsunamis that take place within surrounding regions. From the map to the left of this writing entitled, 'Frequency of Natural Disasters' the scale of frequency of a natural disaster is determined by the darkness of the green. the focal point of this map is the deep green splodge located centrally above the Philippines and near by countries such as Malaysia. |