Natural disasters

3. A violent windstorm.
4. A great sea wave produced especially by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
6. A sudden movement of the earth's crust caused by the release of stress accumulated along geologic faults or by volcanic activity. Also called seism, temblor.
7. An extreme scarcity of food.
8. An occurrence in which a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people.
10. An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
11. A period of dryness especially when prolonged.

1. The sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material.
2. An uncontrolled fire in a wooded area.
5. A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside.
9. A large mass of wet earth that suddenly and quickly moves down the side of a mountain or hill.