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The flooding statewide has surpassed that seen during a historic 1941 deluge, according to the Brazilian Geological Service. In some cities, water levels were at their highest since records began ...
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
Brazil’s federal government announced it will spend nearly 51 billion reais ($10 billion) on recovery, provide credit to farmers and small companies and suspend the state’s 11-billion-reais ...
The April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides was an extreme weather event that affected the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the first days of April 2010. At least 212 people died, [2] [3] [4] 161 people have been injured (including several rescuers), [5] while at least 15,000 people have been made homeless. [6]
Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in Brazil, killing at least 36 people and casting a pall over the country’s annual carnival festivities.. The hardest-hit regions – Sao Sebastiao ...
The previous record had occurred on August 20, 1952, when it rained 168.2 mm (6.62 in) in 24 hours. [8] The high level of precipitation caused flooding within the city as well as destabilized the mountainside, causing mudslides. [3] Videos of the disaster were widely shared on social media, showing cars and houses being dragged by landslides.
Soon after the floods began, various bloggers from Blumenau began reporting about the situation on Twitter, providing photos, videos, forecast conditions and river levels for other people on the internet who were isolated by the floods. [15] A site showed up on the Brazilian blogosphere to keep people informed and offering a channel for ...
“The fly-over we just did, shows the dimension of an absolutely out of the ordinary event,” Leite said in a video posted on the state's Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and ...