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From June to September 1954, the Yangtze River Floods were a series of catastrophic floodings that occurred mostly in Hubei Province. Due to unusually high volume of precipitation as well as an extraordinarily long rainy season in the middle stretch of the Yangtze River late in the spring of 1954, the river started to rise above its usual level in around late June.
From June to September 1954, the Yangtze River Floods were a series of catastrophic floodings that occurred mostly in Hubei Province. Due to unusually high volume of precipitation as well as an extraordinarily long rainy season in the middle stretch of the Yangtze River late in the spring of 1954, the river started to rise above its usual level ...
1954 Yangtze River floods: China: 1954 27,000–1,500,000 1974 Bangladesh flood due to monsoon rain Bangladesh: 1974 26,000–240,000 1975 Banqiao Dam failure and floods China: 1975 25,000–40,000 St. Marcellus flood / Grote Mandrenke, storm tide Holy Roman Empire, Denmark: 1362 20,000–25,000 All Saints' Flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire ...
Pages in category "1954 natural disasters" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... 0–9. 1954 Yangtze floods; B. 1954 Blons avalanches; I ...
1954 Yangtze floods This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 03:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
His ship went up the Yangtze River, where he witnessed the plight of the residents of Shanghai. ... earning an MBA in 1954. In 1963 he partnered with Austen Colgate to form his own firm ...
The flood waters covered Wuhan, a city of eight million people, for over three months, and the Jingguang Railway was out of service for more than 100 days. [110] The 1954 flood carried 50 cubic kilometres (12 cu mi) of water. The dam could only divert the water above Chenglingji, leaving 30 to 40 km 3 (7.2 to 9.6 cu mi) to be diverted. [111]
At least 10 people have been killed and three are missing in flooding in the central Chinese province of Hunan, while a landslide buried parts of a village in the southern Guangxi region, state ...