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The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, was a devastating flood that occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely.
The drought resulted in millions of deaths: China: 3,000,000 – 10,000,000: 1930–1934: First Kere: Madagascar: 500,000: 1932–1933: Soviet famine of 1932–1933, including famine in Ukraine, and famine in Kazakhstan, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period, [130] and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932. [131]
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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 ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1931 (18 P) Pages in category "1931 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,051 total.
The Chinese famine of 1928–1930 occurred as widespread drought hit Northwestern and Northern China, most notably in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu. [1] Mortality is estimated to be within 6 million, which already included deaths from famine-led diseases. [2]
1931 187 Ulaanbaatar-Tov area, heavy rain, mostly during August Mongolia: 1982 182 Rio Grande do Sul floods Brazil: 2024 172 2012 Russian floods: Krymsk: 2012 165 2004 Brazil flood, mainly São Paulo, Pemambuco, torrential rain, mudslide Brazil: 2004 159 Sarno flood and landslide Italy: 1998 154 KwaZulu-Natal: South Africa: 1995 141+
In 2013, it was said that total excess deaths in Ukraine could not have exceeded 2.9 million. [192] Other estimates of famine deaths are as follows: The 2004 book The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft gives an estimate of 5.5 to 6.5 million deaths. [193]