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This category includes articles on disasters in the United States State of California Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disasters and accidents in California . Subcategories
The resulting flooding in the Central Valley and other low-lying areas forced over 120,000 people from their homes and caused over $2 billion in property damage alone. 48 out of California's 58 counties were declared disaster areas with many streamflow gauge stations in these areas recording return intervals of over 100 years. It would take ...
It has been described as the worst disaster ever to strike California. [5] The storms caused an estimated $100 million (1861 USD) in damage, roughly equal to $3 billion in 2021. The governor, state legislature, and state employees were not paid for a year and a half. [2]
Considered a 100-year flood, [2] it was the worst flood in recorded history on nearly every major stream and river in coastal Northern California and one of the worst to affect the Willamette River in Oregon. It also affected parts of southwest Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. [1] [3]
A 28-year-old man succumbed to his injuries three years after the disaster, bringing the final death toll to 23. All of the victims were male, and most were children. [2] No physical memorial to the disaster exists, save for a cross at one 12-year-old boy's grave. The site of the disaster is now occupied by a UCSF building. [5]
The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, [2] [3] in what is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history. [4] [5] [6]
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.
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