word | | Natural hazards |
| floods | Egypt | periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms |
| floods | Equatorial Guinea | violent windstorms, flash floods |
| floods | Guyana | flash floods are a constant threat during rainy seasons |
| floods | Honduras | frequent, but generally mild, earthquakes; extremely susceptible to damaging hurricanes and floods along the Caribbean coast |
| floods | India | droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes |
| floods | Indonesia | occasional floods, severe droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, forest fires |
| floods | Iran | periodic droughts, floods; dust storms, sandstorms; earthquakes |
| floods | Iraq | dust storms, sandstorms, floods |
| floods | Korea, South | occasional typhoons bring high winds and floods; low-level seismic activity common in southwest |
| floods | Laos | floods, droughts |
| floods | Mozambique | severe droughts; devastating cyclones and floods in central and southern provinces |
| floods | Russia | ... a major impediment to development; volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands; volcanoes and earthquakes on the Kamchatka Peninsula; spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout Siberia and parts of European Russia |
| floods | Somalia | recurring droughts; frequent dust storms over eastern plains in summer; floods during rainy season |
| floods | Switzerland | avalanches, landslides, flash floods |
| floods | Tajikistan | earthquakes and floods |
| floods | Timor-Leste | floods and landslides are common; earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones |
| floods | United Kingdom | winter windstorms; floods |
| floods | Uruguay | ... pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind that blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly ... |
| floods | Venezuela | subject to floods, rockslides, mudslides; periodic droughts |
| floods | Virgin Islands | several hurricanes in recent years; frequent and severe droughts and floods; occasional earthquakes |
| floods | Zimbabwe | recurring droughts; floods and severe storms are rare |
| floored | Southern Ocean | ... 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 waves much of ... |
| fog | 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 |
| fog | Pacific Ocean | ... Hemisphere and the western Pacific; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme north from October to May; persistent fog in the northern Pacific can be a maritime hazard from June to December |
| fog | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | persistent fog throughout the year can be a maritime hazard |
| followed | Korea, North | late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding; occasional typhoons during the early fall |
| Fonuafo | Tonga | cyclones (October to April); earthquakes and volcanic activity on Fonuafo'ou |
| foot | Antarctica | katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism ... |
| forest | Australia | cyclones along the coast; severe droughts; forest fires |
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