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America NOAA 7 Day Rainfall Data for China Region(22 April 2024 to 28 April 2024) In April 2024, heavy rains caused floods in China, mainly affecting Guangdong Province. [1] In Guangdong Province, at least four deaths were confirmed, while 10 people were missing. As many as 110,000 people were evacuated. [1]
Several floods caused by heavy rainfall struck in China starting in Guangdong Province in April 2024. Bands of heavy rainfall in June 2024 caused water levels to rise in rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta, inundating many towns and cities, forcing the ...
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0–9. 1851–1855 Yellow River floods; 1912 China typhoon; 1931 China floods; 1935 Yangtze flood; Eastern China flood of 1991; Shalan Town flood of 2005
The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, was a devastating flood that occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely.
The military history of China has seen several instances of deliberate human destruction of dykes. It was attested in 225 BC, AD 219, 918, 923, 1128, 1232, 1234, 1642 and 1926. [16] In 1935, Alexander von Falkenhausen was commissioned by the Chinese to write a report on the strategic planning of the upcoming Sino-Japanese War.
The local governments in recent years had made steps to implement nature-based flood mitigation strategies like tree planting, sponge cities and floodplain restoration. [18] [19] Experts have noted these measures did have some positive effect as the intensity of precipitation in 2020 is much higher than the rains that caused the 1998 floods, yet the flooding has been less serious and damaging ...
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