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Several floods caused by heavy rainfall struck in China starting in Guangdong Province in April 2024. Bands of heavy rainfall in June 2024 caused water levels to rise in rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta, inundating many towns and cities, forcing the ...
The Beijing Flood Control Headquarters activated the city's flood control red early warning on July 30. Tiananmen Square, the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, and the Badaling Great Wall were temporarily closed. [12] The China Central Television reported that 31,000 individuals fled their homes in high-risk regions in Beijing. [13]
0–9. 1851–1855 Yellow River floods; 1912 China typhoon; 1931 China floods; 1935 Yangtze flood; Eastern China flood of 1991; Shalan Town flood of 2005
BEIJING (Reuters) -Intense rain from the remnants of Typhoon Haikui hit southeast China on Wednesday, bringing floods that forced some cities to suspend subway services, shut schools and move tens ...
China has been gripped by weeks of rains and floods amid an unusually wet summer. In late July, storms from Typhoon Dokusri caused record rains to hit China in over a decade, with Beijing ...
The People's Republic of China established a National Earthquake Administration in 1971 to take charge of monitoring, research, and emergency response for earthquakes. It was renamed China Earthquake Administration (CEA) in 1998, mandated by the Earthquake prevention and Disaster Reduction Act of PRC [4] under the State Council. Each provincial ...
From the air, the devastation in Zhengzhou (JUNG-JO) is seen at its worst. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the industrial hub in China's central Henan province.And dams and ...
2017 China floods: China: 2017 200–600 1824 St. Petersburg flood: Russia: 1824 200–600 Chungar landslide, flood, avalanche Peru: 1971 200+ 2008 South China floods: South China: 2008 200 Pamir Mountain area, mud and rock slides, torrential rain Tajikistan: 1992 199 Santa Catarina, Tubarão, torrential heavy rain Brazil: 1974 199