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The 2017 Northeast India floods were caused by overflowing of Brahmaputra river in the state of Assam in July 2017 affecting four Indian states: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] As of 14 July 2017, at least 85 people were dead [ 28 ] as a result of the flooding and 4 lakh people have been affected and 5,00,000 have ...
[2] [4] The Brahmaputra River overtopped its banks in numerous locations, flooding 1,800 villages. [9] The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) stated on 16 July 2019, that flooding had affected 32 of the state's 33 districts, affecting 4.496 million people across 4,620 villages.
Prior to the floods Sri Lanka was suffering a drought and consequently power cuts as reservoirs ran dry. [65] [66] Following the floods water levels in many of the reservoirs reached 75%, giving uninterrupted power supply according to the Ministry of Power and Energy. [67] As rescue efforts continued the death toll increased.
Brahmaputra River seen from a SPOT satellite The Brahmaputra and its tributaries in northeastern India and Bangladesh James Rennell's 1776 map shows the Brahmaputra's flow before an earthquake on 2 April 1762 and the Teesta River flowing in three channels to the Ganga before a flood in 1787.
Navy boats were out rescuing marooned residents.Sri Lanka's southern and western plains were the most effected in the last 72 hours due to the monsoon rains.Heavy downpours caused by cyclones have ...
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.
Sri Lanka closed schools on Monday as heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides in many parts of the island nation, leaving at least 10 people dead and six others missing, officials said. The ...
The 2019 floods and landslides in Sri Lanka were the floods which were caused from heavy torrential rainfalls during September 2019. [1] As of 26 September 2019; the monsoon floods affected in about 13 districts, killing at least 2 persons, injuring 6 people and about 116, 000 people are affected. [ 2 ]