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Hours of heavy monsoon rains caused flash flooding at around 22:30 WIB (15:30 UTC) on 11 May, exacerbated by a lahar from Mount Marapi. [1] [2] The rains also caused a river to overflow and flood villages in four districts. [3] The lahar swept down Mount Marapi, carrying a wet mixture of ash and rocks. It buried homes and swept some residents ...
2016 Italian flood: Northwestern Italy: 1: Heavy rain 2017: 2017 West Attica floods: Greece: 24: Heavy rain 2018: 2018 European floods: Spain, France, Italy: 69: Heavy rain 2019: 2019 Yorkshire Dales flooding: United Kingdom: 0: Heavy rain 2019: 2019–2020 United Kingdom floods: United Kingdom: 11: Heavy rain 2020: 2020 floods in Evia, Greece ...
On steep slopes, lahar speeds can exceed 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph). [9] A lahar can cause catastrophic destruction along a potential path of more than 300 kilometres (190 mi). [10] Lahars from the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption in Colombia caused the Armero tragedy, burying the city of Armero under 5 metres (16 ft) of mud and debris and ...
Another factor that may be contributing to the severe floods, however, is human activity and land-use change. Because most of the recent floods in Central Europe are river floods, says Bates, it ...
This was the worst flooding in the area in more than half a century. The death toll is rising after three months worth of rain fell in 24 hours. Devastation after flooding in Europe [Video]
From 4 October 2018 to early November, heavy floods affected Europe. The floods started in the Italian region of Calabria . Then, on 9 October, the island of Mallorca , Spain was struck by floods and in the next days some cities in Southwest France , the region of Sardinia , Italy and some parts of Portugal and the United Kingdom were also ...
The Polish defence ministry said more than 14,000 soldiers had been deployed to flood-hit regions, with the armed forces using helicopters to evacuate people and strengthen flood defences, while ...
The lahars can coat objects, wash objects away and can knock objects down by their force. Lahars, debris flows and mudflows that travel into a river or stream run the potential for crowding the waterway, forcing the water to flow outward and causing a flood. The volcanic matter could also pollute the water, making it unsafe to drink. [citation ...