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Pages in category "Natural disasters in Brazil" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Brazil: 1974 199 2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides: El Salvador: 2009 190 Huigra, landslide Ecuador: 1931 187 Ulaanbaatar-Tov area, heavy rain, mostly during August Mongolia: 1982 182 Rio Grande do Sul floods Brazil: 2024 172 2012 Russian floods: Krymsk: 2012 165 2004 Brazil flood, mainly São Paulo, Pemambuco, torrential rain, mudslide ...
A series of floods and mudslides took place in January 2011 in several towns of the Mountainous Region (Região Serrana), in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.Casualties occurred in the cities of Nova Friburgo, Teresópolis, Petrópolis, Bom Jardim, Sumidouro and São José do Vale do Rio Preto. [3]
Heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing, the state civil defense agency said Friday, as record-breaking floods devastated ...
The 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides were a severe natural disaster principally affecting five northeastern states of Brazil. As a result of heavy rains, fourteen people were reported dead over a period of one month and at least 62,600 others had been left homeless as of 2 May 2009.
The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in flooding that devastated the downstream villages of Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo (40 km (25 mi ...
It is considered the country's worst flooding in over 80 years. [5] [6] The floods marked the fourth such environmental disaster in Brazil within the past 12 months, following similar calamities that killed 75 people in July, September, and November 2023. [7] [8]
Much of western Brazil is under stress and the Amazon basin rivers are registering at historic lows. ... it’s the worst fire season in the past 19 years, worst drought in 40 years — and ...