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The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province facing the brunt of the damage ...
In 2010, almost all of Pakistan was affected when massive flooding, caused by record breaking rains, hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The number of people affected by the flooding exceeds the combined total affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake . [ 7 ]
The floods in Pakistan caused 250 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) of damage to crops such as sugar cane, cotton and rice. The waters destroyed 700,000 acres of planted cotton and 200,000 acres each ...
2010–2011 Southern Africa floods: Africa: 2011 140+ 2019 Pakistan floods and storms: Pakistan: 2019 139 Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts) United States: 1874 138 2010 Colombia floods: Colombia: 2010 128 Izumo, massive rain and mudslide Japan: 1964 125+ 2010 Leh floods: Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan/India: 2010 123 2009 Jeddah Torrential ...
The flooding this summer comes after record-breaking monsoon rainfall in the south Asian country. ‘Fingerprints’ of climate change on devastating Pakistan floods Skip to main content
Flood: Jul/Aug 2010: 20,000,000: See also. National Disaster Management Authority (Pakistan) ... List of floods in Pakistan; Drought in Pakistan; External links
One year after catastrophic floods devastated swathes of Pakistan, some 4 million children in the South Asian nation remain without access to safe water, the United Nations children’s agency has ...
A NASA satellite image showing the Indus River at the time of 2010 floods. Pakistan has seen many floods. The worst, and most destructive, flooding was the recent 2010 Pakistan floods, which swept away 20% of Pakistan's land. The flood was the result of unprecedented monsoon rains, which lasted from 28 July to 31 July 2010.