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Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
Map of the Spanish island before the devastations of Osorio, when the entire island belonged to Spain. To the west can be seen the old Spanish villages of Lares de Guahaba, Puerto Real, Villanueva de Jaquimo, Salvatierra de la Sabana, Santa María de la Yaguana and Santa María de la Verapaz.
Hurricane Debby was a slow-moving, destructive and erratic tropical cyclone that caused widespread severe flooding across the Southeastern United States and portions of Atlantic Canada, becoming the costliest natural disaster in the history of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Devastation (video game), a first-person shooter video game developed by Digitalo Studios, released in February 2003; Mortal Kombat: Devastation, a cancelled Mortal Kombat film; Devastation (comics), a fictional character and DC Comics villain in the Wonder Woman comic book; The Transformers: Devastation, a six-issue Transformers comic miniseries
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies [2] [3] (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.
Devastation is a first-person shooter video game by American developer Digitalo Studios, released for Windows and Linux in 2003. The game takes place in an impoverished, dystopian near-future Earth, pitting an underground group of rebels against an oppressive, all-powerful mega-corporation .
A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. The term "disaster" itself is defined as follows: "Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources.
Devastation was released on October 6, 2015, in the United States and October 9 in Europe, and was the final game released under Activision's 2006 licensing agreement with Hasbro. [7] Following the deal's expiration, the game and its DLC were removed from sale via digital storefronts in December 2017, alongside other Transformers games ...