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; floods |
| floods | Timor-Leste | floods and landslides are common; earthquakes; tsunamis; tropical cyclones |
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