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The flooding has also raised concerns for Queensland’s mining sector, with Townsville serving as a major processing hub for zinc, silver, lead, copper, and iron ore.
Flooding has hit large parts of the North Queensland coast since Friday, with the town of Ingham and the nearby city of Townsville heavily impacted. Residents in low-lying coastal suburbs and ...
The flooding was the result of a low pressure system over Queensland's southern coast that dragged in moisture from the Coral Sea in the north, raising it over the Queensland coastline. The area of colder air higher in the atmosphere which the low-pressure system travelled in, thus making the atmosphere unstable and permitting moisture to be ...
The 2019 Townsville flood was a major flood event that occurred in the city of Townsville and surrounding areas, on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] Townsville has endured around 20 major flooding events since colonial settlement in the 1860s, but the 2019 event was one of the worst natural disasters to ever impact the region. [ 2 ]
1893 Brisbane flood Flooding in Newcastle in 2007 Queensland 2010-2011 floods. Australia has had over 160,708 floods in the last 10 years, many of which have taken out homes, wildlife and many habitats.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasper was the wettest tropical cyclone in Australian history, surpassing Peter of 1979. [2] The third disturbance of the 2023–24 South Pacific cyclone season and the first named storm and severe tropical cyclone of the 2023–24 Australian region cyclone season, Jasper was first noted as an area of low pressure located in the South Pacific Ocean, which was initially ...
The Queensland floods were followed by the 2011 Victorian floods which saw more than fifty communities in western and central Victoria also grapple with significant flooding. On 26 February 2021 the result of legal action, started in 2014 and won in 2019, was a partial settlement of A$440 million in compensation for thousands of flood victims ...
The most severe flood to take place along the Gascoyne River in Western Australia on record. 2010–2011 Flood: 2010–11 Queensland floods: 33 2,390,000,000 AUD 2011 Cyclone: Cyclone Yasi: 1 3,600,000,000 USD (2011) 2011 Flood: 2011 Victoria floods: 2 $2,000,000,000 AUD 2011 Flood: 2011 Wollongong floods: 0 2013 Bushfire: Tasmanian bushfires ...