DANGER: How safe is your next holiday destination?

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck near the coast of Alaska today at 12:35am (local time), triggering a tsunami warning.

The powerful quake hit 155 miles south east of Chiniak on the southern Alaskan coast.

The tsunami warning is in place across the western coast of the US, from Alaska down to the California-Mexico border, as well as areas of Canada.

The foreign office website says: “A tsunami warning is in place for British Columbia, south and south east Alaska, the Alaskan peninsula and the Aleutian Islands; you should monitor local reports and follow any advice issued by the local authorities.”

Tourists have been left concerned about the safety of their own holidays to the US and elsewhere.

So which travel destinations are considered safe and which should Brits steer clear of?

The 2016 World Risk Report compiled by the United Nations University for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), reveals which countries are deemed safest and most dangerous.

The report ranks countries as very low, low, middle, high or very high and the US is categorised as a mixture of low and very low, despite the recent tragedy.

The data has revealed which countries are most and least likely to experience natural disasters – and therefore which are the most and least dangerous travel destinations for tourists.

The World Risk Report assigned a risk percentage to a total of 171 countries, based on the chances of experiencing earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and sea level rises.

LOCATION: The quake struck 155 miles from the southern Alaskan coast

The WorldRiskIndex is intended to give answers to four key questions:

1. How likely is an extreme natural event, and will it affect people?2. How vulnerable are people to natural hazards?3. To what extent can societies cope with acute disasters?4. Is a society taking preventive measures to face natural hazards to be reckoned with in the future?

Taking all this into account, the World Risk Index 2012-2016 found that the global hotspots for a high disaster risk lie in Oceania, Southeast Asia, Central America, and the Southern Sahel.

Russia, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Italy were ranked as "low risk". And countries including Grenada, Finland, Malta and Singapore were in the "very low" risk category.

Vanuatu was ranked as the most dangerous country with a natural disaster risk of 36.28%, while Qatar was the safest with just a 0.08%.

"Countries like the Solomon Islands (ranked 6th), Papua-New Guinea (ranked 10th), and Guinea-Bissau (ranked 15th) are all very strongly exposed to natural hazards and, owing to their poor economic and social situations, particularly vulnerable," the report reads.

The 15 most dangerous countries, according to the report:

1. Vanuatu 36.282. Tonga 29.333. Philippines 26.704. Guatemala 19.885. Bangladesh 19.176. Solomon Islands 19.147. Brunei Darussalam 17.008. Costa Rica 17.009. Cambodia 16.5810. Papua New Guinea 16.4311. El Salvador 16.0512. Timor-Leste 15.6913. Mauritius 15.5314. Nicaragua 14.6215. Guinea-Bissau 13.56

The 15 safest countries, according to the report:

1. Qatar 0.082. Malta 0.603. Saudi Arabia 1.144. Barbados 1.325. Grenada 1.426. Iceland 1.527. Bahrain 1.698. Kiribati 1.789. United Arab Emirates 1.9710. Sweden 2.1211. Norway 2.1912. Finland 2.2113. Singapore 2.2714. Egypt 2.2915. Israel 2.30

The string of horrific terror attacks has left everyone worried about their own safety. And in the past year many Brits have cancelled holidays to destinations like Turkey and Spain, following atrocities.

To help confused Brits, here are 10 safe travel destinations with low threat of terrorism.