I'm drawing a blank. Pretty much all of the mid-west is susceptible to tornadoes. The east and southeast to hurricanes. The west to earthquakes. The northeast to those crazy blizzards they sometimes get.
Because it doesn’t exist. You don’t build a city where you fortress. The oceans that give rise to natural harbours and ports also bring risk of floods and tsunami. Similarly for fertile riparian. The same seismology that raises the mountains which squeeze rain from clouds and provide stunning vistas also level badly-built homes.
The risks can be mitigated, but never eliminated. Look at the list of natural-disaster safe cities in America, and find a sea of low GDP per capita [1]. In an unexpected place we find the old adage reaffirmed: risk and reward come together.
> Earthquakes occur in the central portion of the United States too! Some very powerful earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley in 1811-1812. Because of the crustal structure in the Central US which efficiently propagates seismic energy, shaking from earthquakes in this part of the country are felt at a much greater distance from the epicenters than similar size quakes in the Western US.
And yes, while the entire west coast is red in the risk category... there is a good sized blob in the midwest.
I'm drawing a blank. Pretty much all of the mid-west is susceptible to tornadoes. The east and southeast to hurricanes. The west to earthquakes. The northeast to those crazy blizzards they sometimes get.