word | | Natural hazards |
| damage | Kuwait | sudden cloudbursts are common from October to April and bring heavy rain, which can damage roads and houses; sandstorms and dust storms occur throughout the year but are most common between March ... |
| damaging | Afghanistan | damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts |
| damaging | China | frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence |
| damaging | Honduras | frequent, but generally mild, earthquakes; extremely susceptible to damaging hurricanes and floods along the Caribbean coast |
| Darien | Panama | occasional severe storms and forest fires in the Darien area |
| Davis | Atlantic Ocean | icebergs common in Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from February to August and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to ... |
| days | Libya | hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms |
| December | American Samoa | typhoons common from December to March |
| December | Atlantic Ocean | ... and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme northern Atlantic from October to May; persistent fog can be a maritime hazard from May to September; hurricanes (May to December |
| December | Benin | hot, dry, dusty harmattan wind may affect north from December to March |
| December | Comoros | cyclones possible during rainy season (December to April); Le Kartala on Grand Comore is an active volcano |
| December | Guam | frequent squalls during rainy season; relatively rare, but potentially very destructive typhoons (June - December) |
| December | Liberia | dust-laden harmattan winds blow from the Sahara (December to March) |
| December | Micronesia, Federated States of | typhoons (June to December) |
| December | Pacific Ocean | ... Ring of Fire"; subject to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in southeast and east Asia from May to December (most frequent from July to October); tropical cyclones (hurricanes) may form south of Mexico and ... |
| December | Palau | typhoons (June to December) |
| December | Sierra Leone | dry, sand-laden harmattan winds blow from the Sahara (December to February); sandstorms, dust storms |
| Deception | Antarctica | ... the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of West Antarctica; other seismic activity rare and weak; large icebergs ... |
| deep | Southern Ocean | ... 1 m thick) with sometimes dynamic short-term variations and with large annual and interannual variations; deep continental shelf floored by glacial deposits varying widely over short distances; high winds and large ... |
| delta | Vietnam | occasional typhoons (May to January) with extensive flooding, especially in the Mekong River delta |
| Democratic | Rwanda | periodic droughts; the volcanic Virunga mountains are in the northwest along the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Denmark | Atlantic Ocean | icebergs common in Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from February to August and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to ... |
| departments | France | metropolitan France: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean overseas departments: hurricanes (cyclones), flooding, volcanic activity (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion) |
| depending | Nepal | severe thunderstorms, flooding, landslides, drought, and famine depending on the timing, intensity, and duration of the summer monsoons |
| depletion | Thailand | land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table; droughts |
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