On March 10, 2011, Myanmar had just experienced a 6.8-magnitude earthquake, and then Japan was struggling to reduce the enormous losses brought by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in its own country on March 11, 2011. In 2005, Slate magazine's "Expositor" column named Storrs, Connecticut, USA as the safest city far away from natural disasters. So which countries are the least vulnerable to threats of natural disasters?