The phrase "exposed to natural disasters" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you might say "The coastal district was exposed to natural disasters such as flooding and high winds."
Port Vila is considered to be the city most exposed to natural disasters in the world: as well as cyclones, it faces risks of earthquakes, tsunamis and floods.
But the report goes a step further and calculates the proportion of people exposed to natural disasters who die as a result.
It may be concluded that a country so exposed to natural disasters should maintain an up-to-date inventory and permanent monitoring of natural processes, research on natural phenomena, and improved geomorphological mapping.
Second, we're increasingly leaving ourselves exposed to natural disasters.
Decades of deforestation have left Haiti even more exposed to natural disasters, with less than three percent of its original forest cover still intact, according to the UNDP.
Hydro-Québec's large above-ground transmission and distribution system was considered to be exposed to natural disasters, although the cost of undergrounding the grid was prohibitive.
The strategies adopted by cities exposed to natural disaster risk should also be based on a long, hard look at what their financial capabilities would be in the event of a catastrophe.
China is highly exposed to natural hazards and disasters and the potential impact of climate change (Sun et al. 2016).
Architectural heritages are exposed to natural and man-made disasters so that the need for research to prevent disasters has arisen.
It is increasingly important on a local, regional, national and international level to have robust, science-based, reproducible hazard, impact, and probabilistic risk assessments to inform decisions concerning living with and being exposed to natural hazards – i.e., disaster risk reduction.
The Philippines is among the countries most exposed to natural hazards in the world, with 130m Filipinos affected by weather-related disasters between 1995 and 2015.
