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With tornadoes tearing through cities, killing hundreds, overflowing Midwestern rivers flooding millions of acres, and earthquakes and tsunamis wiping out whole regions of Japan, it's fair to wonder what natural disaster might strike Colorado Springs.
First, the good news: The Pikes Peak region is one of the safest places to live when it comes to nature's wrath. The risk of hurricane, tsumami and prolonged flooding on this high, dry plain are zero. Small earthquakes rumble every few years but the chance of a damaging one in the next 150 years is just 0.5 percent. The area's most recent volcanic eruption was about 30 million years ago. Tornadoes touch down, but the buffering effect of the mountains make them rare and relatively weak.See the full content of this document
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Natural Disasters: Threat
Sustainlane.com, a sustainable development website, ranked the Springs the seventh-safest city in the country in 2008.
Now the bad news: Local disaster planners say they know what the worst-case scenario will look like - because it happened 76 years ago on Memorial Day. That's when a flash flo...See the full content of this document
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