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  2. 2024 Guangdong floods - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. 2024 China floods - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. 1975 Banqiao Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    The runoff of Banqiao Dam was 13,000 m 3 per second in vs. 78,800m 3 per second out, and as a result 701 million m 3 of water was released in 6 hours, [12] while 1.67 billion m 3 of water was released in 5.5 hours at an upriver Shimantan Dam, and 15.738 billion m 3 of water was released in total. [3] Rough diagram of water flow during the dam ...

  5. China blasts dam to divert floods that killed at least 25 - AOL

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    A video posted on Twitter by news site The Paper showed subway passengers standing in chest-high muddy brown water as torrents raged in the tunnel outside. China’s military has blasted a dam to ...

  6. 2024 Central Asian floods - Wikipedia

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    [11] [8] The flooding was worsened by the collapse of a dam near Orsk on 5 April. [3] Several major river systems have seen their water levels rise, including the Ural River, which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan before entering the Caspian Sea, and the Tobol and Ishim Rivers, both of which are tributaries of the Irtysh River. [9]

  7. India concerned as China approves world’s largest dam in Tibet

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    The outlay for building the dam is expected to eclipse the 254.2bn yuan (£27.80bn) it cost to construct the Three Gorges dam. The Yarlung Zangbo river is seen during a government organized visit ...

  8. Three Gorges Dam - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Dam in Yiling District, Hubei, China Dam in Yiling District, Hubei Three Gorges Dam 三峡大坝 The dam in September 2009 Location in Hubei Province Show map of Hubei Three Gorges Dam (China) Show map of China Country China Location Sandouping, Yiling District, Hubei Coordinates 30°49 ...

  9. China to build world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet - AOL

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    China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions ...