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1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll.It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more.
At the time, it was the worst flood in Cumbrian history, but has since been overtaken by the Cumbria flooding of November 2009. [17] One of Canada's most devastating floods occurred in southern Alberta in June 2005. The flooding affected many major metropolitan areas including Calgary. 4 deaths resulted from the three-week flood.
Flooding one city to save another was an awful choice The waters crested May 19 in the old Southern city at 57.1 feet, surpassing a record set 84 years ago. The 10 Costliest Floods in American History
The Missoula megafloods carved deep channels and towering cliffs across the landscape, and are among the largest known floods in Earth’s history. Largest floods in Earth’s history ‘were ...
Most fatalities were due to lightning rather than tornadoes 32 1963 1963 Chualar bus crash: Accident – bus, train Chualar, California: Deadliest road accident in U.S. history, and deadliest U.S. rail accident involving a grade crossing: 32 1968 Northeast Airlines Flight 946: Accident – aircraft Etna, New Hampshire: 32 1969
More than 220 people died and nearly 80 are still missing in what is the most deadly deluge in a single European country since 1967, when floods in Portugal killed around 500.