PANAMA

Panama has a variety of rain-forests, a desert, and beaches located on both coastlines, the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean. It connects both North and South America. It is shaped almost like an S shape, with its Caribbean coastline being 800 miles  and the pacific one being 1,060 miles long, which lead to the that connect Panama to Costa Rica and the Colombian border. That being said Panama has natural hazards just like any other country, two of those being earthquakes and floods. Because of Panama's tectonic plates there are earthquakes that happen in Panama there are partly large earthquakes with strengths of more than 7.0, which cause damages within a radius of over 100 kilometers. Due to the special tectonic situation of the country, there are more earthquakes than average.  The Panamanian shelf break and inland adds a higher degree of tectonic complexity to the area. The Panama micro-plate is moving northward to the Caribbean Plate. Its ongoing collision with South America oc