word | | Natural hazards |
| dynamic | Southern Ocean | ... meters; smaller bergs and iceberg fragments; sea ice (generally 0.5 to 1 m thick) with sometimes dynamic short-term variations and with large annual and interannual variations; deep continental shelf floored by ... |
| early | Korea, North | late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding; occasional typhoons during the early fall |
| early | Paraguay | local flooding in southeast (early September to June); poorly drained plains may become boggy (early October to June) |
| earthquake | Cyprus | moderate earthquake activity; droughts |
| earthquake | Pacific Ocean | surrounded by a zone of violent volcanic and earthquake activity sometimes referred to as the "Pacific Ring of Fire"; subject to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in southeast and east Asia from May to ... |
| earthquake | United States | tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west ... |
| earthquakes | Afghanistan | damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts |
| earthquakes | Albania | destructive earthquakes; tsunamis occur along southwestern coast; floods; drought |
| earthquakes | Algeria | mountainous areas subject to severe earthquakes; mudslides and floods in rainy season |
| earthquakes | Argentina | San Miguel de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the pampas and northeast; heavy flooding |
| earthquakes | Armenia | occasionally severe earthquakes; droughts |
| earthquakes | Austria | landslides; avalanches; earthquakes |
| earthquakes | Bosnia and Herzegovina | destructive earthquakes |
| earthquakes | Brunei | typhoons, earthquakes, and severe flooding are rare |
| earthquakes | Bulgaria | earthquakes, landslides |
| earthquakes | Burma | destructive earthquakes and cyclones; flooding and landslides common during rainy season (June to September); periodic droughts |
| earthquakes | Chile | severe earthquakes; active volcanism; tsunamis |
| earthquakes | China | frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence |
| earthquakes | Colombia | highlands subject to volcanic eruptions; occasional earthquakes; periodic droughts |
| earthquakes | Costa Rica | occasional earthquakes, hurricanes along Atlantic coast; frequent flooding of lowlands at onset of rainy season and landslides; active volcanoes |
| earthquakes | Croatia | destructive earthquakes |
| earthquakes | Djibouti | earthquakes; droughts; occasional cyclonic disturbances from the Indian Ocean bring heavy rains and flash floods |
| earthquakes | Ecuador | frequent earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity; floods; periodic droughts |
| earthquakes | Egypt | periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms |
| earthquakes | El Salvador | known as the Land of Volcanoes; frequent and sometimes destructive earthquakes and volcanic activity; extremely susceptible to hurricanes |
| earthquakes | Ethiopia | geologically active Great Rift Valley susceptible to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions; frequent droughts |
| earthquakes | European Union | flooding along coasts; avalanches in mountainous area; earthquakes in the south; volcanic eruptions in Italy; periodic droughts in Spain; ice floes in the Baltic |
| earthquakes | Georgia | earthquakes |
| earthquakes | Greece | severe earthquakes |
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