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On 17 October 1960, the 1960 Lucknow flood was a natural disaster that occurred in the city of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India, in October 1960. It was caused by the overflow of the Gomti River , a tributary of the Ganges River , after heavy rainfall in the Himalayan region.
The floods caused $105 billion USD of damage ($88.5 billion in India, [1] $15 billion in Sri Lanka, [2] and $1.5 billion in Pakistan [2]), making them the costliest floods in modern history, and the ninth costliest disaster of all time. In addition there were 6,511 fatalities, the most reported in a flood since Cyclone Sidr in 2007.
2016 Indian floods by monsoon rain India: 2016 1,000 [citation needed] 1961 Bihar flood India: 1961 992 1957 Isahaya flood, massive rain and mudslide Japan: 1957 941 Inuyama Iruka pond dam failure Japan: 1868 933 1938 Hanshin flood, mainly Tokyo, Kobe, massive rain and landslide Japan: 1938 915 Barcelona, flash flood: Spain: 1962 903
India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra) Part of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season The 2020 Hyderabad floods were a series of floods associated with Deep Depression BOB 02 that caused extensive damage and loss of life as a result of flash flooding in Hyderabad , India in October 2020.
Major reported incidents in relation to flooding include a landslide in Idukki district on 6 August, claiming 66 lives and an Air India plane crash that caused the death of 21 people. [4] [3] [5] The 2020 flood in Kerala marked the third year in a row of severe monsoon flooding. [6]
The death toll from flash floods unleashed by a glacial lake bursting its banks in India’s Himalayas climbed to 74 on Monday with 101 people still missing days after the calamity struck ...
2024 India floods; Indian Armed Forces and the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods; M. 2021 Maharashtra floods; Mal river accident; 2017 Mumbai flood; N. ... 2020 Vidarbha ...
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least 42 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods in the Indian Himalayas this week, government officials said on Friday ...