Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
I am not saying the US is not without some issues, but lets keep things in perspective. There are 30 events listed. The US has 9 of them. Nine is not many times more than 21. It is in fact less than 1/2 of the total listed.
I wasn't saying we had more than everyone else combined, and I figured different reporting standards might be part of the difference. I just assumed there'd be many more large, single structure events somewhere like Hong Kong or Mumbai or Shanghai, where earthquakes are common and population density is higher. And the small disasters add up to many more lives impacted than do the big ones, no matter whether you are talking about structures failing or car wrecks or plane crashes. There are lots of fatal GA plane crashes every year, for example, but when one jumbo jet goes down, that's news.