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The majority of the collection is of declared disasters and there are also photographs from significant public events that have occurred on or near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Since August 30, 2005, 6,098 images have been added to the collection; Hurricane Katrina has the most photographs in the collection with around 3,000 images.
The flood is considered one of the deadliest floods in the history of Colorado, causing at least 144 deaths and 250 injuries, along with at least 5 missing. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] On August 1, over 800 people were evacuated from flood-impacted areas via helicopter , [ 24 ] and were taken to a high school in Loveland, Colorado that was established ...
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
At least 217 people are dead after Spain was struck by the worst floods in recent memory that submerged towns, toppled bridges and cut entire communities off from the outside world.. The deadly ...
Here are some stunning videos, images from social media posts on the severe weather and flooding in South Florida: Downtown Fort Lauderdale as of 3:45 PM no signs of this rain letting up.
The Mocoa landslide was a natural disaster that took place in 2017. During the pre-dawn hours of 1 April 2017, locally heavy rain triggered flash flooding and landslides in the city of Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia, killing at least 336 people, injuring 400, and leaving 200 others missing. [1]
The flood eventually led to calls for the construction of a dam upstream on the Allegheny to prevent future floods of this magnitude. Laws providing for the construction of the dam were passed in 1936 and 1938 , but it would take nearly three decades, and a bitter fight with the Seneca Nation of Indians , before the Kinzua Dam was finally ...
Gov. Kim Reynolds requests disaster aid for Iowa flooding Gov. Kim Reynolds requested an expedited presidential major disaster declaration in response to the flooding in north central Iowa counties.