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A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm , hurricane , or tropical storm , or by meltwater from ice and snow .
2006 Ethiopia flood, mainly Omo River Delta, Dire Dawa, Tena, Gode, flash flood, heavyrain Ethiopia: 2006 677 2009 August 8 flood, due to Typhoon Morakot, An entire village of Shiaolin was buried at the southern county of Kaohsiung: Taiwan: 2009 672 1972 Seoul flood: South Korea: 1972 653 1972 Luzon flood: Philippines: 1972 610 2007 North ...
Flood September 7 –11 1922 50,000–100,000+ 1922 Shantou typhoon: Philippines, China Tropical cyclone July 27 –August 3 1923 105,385-142,800 1923 Great KantÅ earthquake: Japan Earthquake September 1 1924 1,000 Great flood of 99: India Flood July 1925 5,000 1925 Dali earthquake: China Earthquake March 16 1926 709 1926 Havana–Bermuda ...
The death toll includes 10 schoolchildren who were washed away while in a vehicle in Samad A'Shan, Oman. ... the second-busiest airport in the world, diverted inbound flights due to flooding on ...
At least four people are dead after powerful storms tore through the waterlogged and storm-weary South. More storms in the coming days will raise the risk once again of flash flooding, damaging ...
Reports in 1994 set the deaths due to the flood at 38, [1] though this had been revised to 50 deaths by 1996. [2] The fiscal cost is estimated at $12–16 billion (equivalent to $23–30 billion in 2023). [1] [2] Even after the water was gone, large amounts of sand still covered the farmlands and homes. [citation needed]
The death toll from severe rainstorms that lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased to 14 on Wednesday after rescue teams in the three neighboring countries recovered seven more bodies.
A publication of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1949 stated property damage reached $102.7 million (1949 value), 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded, 20,000 acres of land were damaged or destroyed, and at least 16 died in the flood (the phrasing suggests these were deaths from the Vanport community); estimates for total deaths from the flood ...