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The flood submerged almost half of the city under several feet of water, killing more than 16 people and making thousands homeless on 13 October 1960. It was one of the worst floods in Lucknow's history. The flood affected various parts of the city, including the old city, the civil lines, the cantonment, and the main shopping centre.
2023 North India floods: India: 2023 100 2008 Vietnam floods: Vietnam, China: 2008 94 The Mameyes disaster: Puerto Rico 1985 90+ Columbus, Ohio flood on March 25, 1913 United States: 1913 86 "Las Nieves" camping river flood, in Biescas. Spain: 1996 85+ January 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2010 81+ Valencia flood
The Bhola cyclone is the deadliest tropical cyclone on record and also one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. A comparable number of people died as a result of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake , 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake , but because of uncertainty in the number of deaths in all four disasters ...
1988 Punjab floods; 1992 India–Pakistan floods; 1993 India floods; 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone; 2000 India–Bangladesh floods; 2004 Bihar flood; Maharashtra floods of 2005; 2005 Chennai floods; 2007 South Asian floods; 2008 Indian floods; 2009 India floods; 2010 Ladakh floods; 2012 Himalayan flash floods; 2013 North India floods; 2014 India ...
The destructive flood claimed at least 1,000 lives, many animals and birds, and caused severe damages to the crops and property in Kerala.Most of the areas in the erstwhile Travancore and Cochin states, parts of Malabar region were submerged under the floodwater.
The Machchhu dam failure or Morbi disaster is a dam-related flood disaster which occurred on 11 August 1979. The Machchu-2 dam, situated on the Machchhu River, failed, sending a wall of water through the town of Morbi (now in the Morbi district) of Gujarat, India. [2]
In May 2017, the Tamil Nadu government inaugurated several flood protection and dam construction and rebuilding projects in Cuddalore district, which had been one of the worst-affected districts during the floods; the projects were estimated to cost ₹ 1.4 billion (US$16 million). [224]
Ethiopia saw one of its worst floods ever in August 2006. Surat, a city of 5 million people in India, witnessed the largest flood in its history during 4 to 10 August 2006. Water discharged for 30 hours from Ukai dam, which flooded the city.