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===Tropical cyclones=== {{main|Tropical cyclones in the Comoros Islands}} Due to their low latitude, the islands are rarely affected by tropical cyclones.<ref name="comoros">{{cite web|publisher=[[Logistics Cluster]]|title=Comoros Humanitarian Background|accessdate=July 25, 2021|url=https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/1.1+Comoros+Humanitarian+Background|archive-date=July 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725172521/https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/1.1+Comoros+Humanitarian+Background|url-status=live}}</ref> However, several cyclones have had damaging and deadly effects. Cyclones in December 1905 and again in December 1906 led to a famine that killed 490 people between August 1905 and January 1906.<ref>{{cite report|url=https://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/lewis1982UNCTAD2.pdf|title=The Economic and Social Effects of Natural Disasters on the Least Developed and Developing Island Countries: With special reference to Antigua and Barbuda, Republic of Cape Verde, Comoros Federal Islamic Republic (and Mayotte), Republic of the Maldives, Western Samoa|date=October 1982|author=James Lewis|publisher=United Nations Office of the Disaster Relief Coordinator|accessdate=December 16, 2024|pages=128-134}}</ref> A tropical cyclone in 1950 killed 585 people while moving through Anjouan and Moheli, injuring 70,000 others. The cyclone left 40,000 people homeless, and also caused β£3.5 worth of damage to crops and infrastructure.<ref>{{cite report|url=https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAT767.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221082430/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaat767.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2017|format=PDF|title=Island Countries of the Indian Ocean: A Regional Profile|publisher=United States Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance|date=November 1984|author=Dennis J. King|author2=Faye Henderson|author3=Cynthia Davis|accessdate=December 16, 2024}}</ref>
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