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Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Afghanistan drought Afghanistan: 1972–1973: Famine in Ethiopia caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule: Ethiopia: 60,000 [159] 1973 Darfur drought Darfur, Sudan: 1,000: 1974: Bangladesh famine of 1974 [160] Bangladesh: 27,000 – 1,500,000 ...
The persistent drought around 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Classic Maya civilization, and the famine of One Rabbit (AD 1454) was a major catastrophe in Mexico. [117] Brazil's 1877–78 Grande Seca (Great Drought), the worst in Brazil's history, [118] caused approximately half a million deaths. [119] The one from 1915 was devastating ...
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin is the largest watershed in the world, ... and 13 of the world’s most intense droughts observed by the satellites have occurred since January 2015.
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The U.S. has droughts in every state except Alaska and Kentucky — the greatest number in history, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. According to the tracker, just more than 45 percent of ...
The largest piece of debris, the Tuscaloosa Seamount, measures 19 by 11 miles (31 by 18 km) and rises 1.1 miles (1.8 km) above the seafloor. [27] [28] Less than 2.6 Ma off South Africa: Agulhas Slide 20,000 km 3: The largest so far described [29] [30] ca. 170,000 BP: off North Island, New Zealand Ruatoria debris avalanche 3,000 km 3 [31] ca ...