We’re a terrible choice for avoiding natural disasters. There is a 75% chance of the Alpine Fault between The Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate rupturing in the next 50 years and they tend to be earthquakes of magnitude 8+.

On average it ruptures every 291 years (+/- 23), and the last one was in 1717.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Fault