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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
Northeastern China, Beijing and Hebei province have seen heavy rainfall and floods since the typhoon made landfall in southern Fujian province two weeks ago. The deaths in Shulan, in northeastern ...
Typhoon Bebinca, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ferdie, was a strong tropical cyclone that affected East China, Guam, Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands in early September 2024. Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai, China, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the city since Typhoon Gloria in 1949.
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 ...
Torrential rain has transformed Beijing's roads into rivers and killed at least two people and trapped hundreds, despite an overnight evacuation of thousands of residents on Monday. Hundreds of ...
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 ...