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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lincstreff" data-source="post: 779534" data-attributes="member: 67490">We do not typically use "attack" for any kind of natural disaster.To determine what words are most commonly used, you can sometimes let Google do the work for you.For example, to try to determine the verbs most commonly used with "typhoon", I put the following example text in quotes and did a Google search: "by a typhoon last year", then looked at all the various sentences that came up, narrowed down to the ones that were in the appropriate context (referring to a country or region), and checked the verbs used.Here is what came up:hit (also: hit hard, heavily hit, etc.)strucksweptdevastatedbattered"Hit" and "struck" were the two most common verbs used.Sentences 9c and 13 both sound fine to me.</blockquote>