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| Death toll | Event | Location |
|---|
| 145,000 | 1935 Yangtze flood | China |
| 100,000+ | St. Felix's Flood, storm surge | Netherlands |
| 594 | Hanoi and Red River Delta flood | North Vietnam |
| (up to) 100,000 | The flood of 1099 | Netherlands & England |
Since early June 2020, heavy rains caused by the regional rainy season led to floods severely affecting large areas of southern China including the Yangtze basin and its tributaries. Rains and floods extended to central and eastern China during July and were described as the worst since at least 1998.
The Flood covered over 88,000 km of China's surface. How much was the damage? The cost of the 1931 china flood damage was an estimate of $104 billion dollars.
The flooding has destroyed croplands, affected millions of people across the country, and caused hundreds of deaths. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel. The 2020 monsoon has brought historic amounts of rain to the country.
The Three Gorges Dam was designed to tame China's longest river. But this summer's record rains reveal its limited ability to control floods. Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built.
It had six of the world's top 10 deadliest natural disasters; the top three occurred in China: the 1931 China floods, death toll 3 million to 4 million, the 1887 Yellow River flood, death toll 0.9 million to 2 million, and the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, death toll 0.83 million.
Ten deadliest natural disasters since 1900 excluding epidemics and famines
| Rank | Death toll (estimate) | Event* |
|---|
| 1. | 1,000,000–4,000,000 | 1931 China floods |
| 2. | 500,000+ | 1970 Bhola cyclone |
| 3. | 100,000−316,000 | 2010 Haiti earthquake |
| 4. | 273,400 | 1920 Haiyuan earthquake |
The river also propels the country's phenomenal economic growth. The 700,000-square-mile Yangtze River basin provides water, transport, and food for almost one-third of China's 1.3 billion people and supplies more than 40% of the country's GDP.
The 1938 flood was caused by the destruction of the dikes near Kaifeng (Henan province) by Chinese Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-shek in an effort to halt the advance of the invading Japanese troops during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45.
Attachments. Together with climate change, rapid economic growth and urbanization, China's intensifying disaster risk is putting a strain on the country's resources, environment, and ecology.
China has touted its massive dam network as a remedy for its devastating annual floods, but record deluges have once again killed hundreds of people and submerged thousands of homes this year. Here are five questions about why China still endures severe flooding every year.
The worst flood in human history occurred in 1887, when the Yellow River overran the dikes in Henan Province. That flood covered 50,000 square miles. It inundated eleven large towns and hundreds of villages. Nine hundred thousand people died, and two million were left homeless.
Mississippi River flood of 1927, also called Great Flood of 1927, flooding of the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States.
The current leader is general secretary Xi Jinping, elected at the 18th Central Committee held on 15 November 2012. Officially, the CCP is committed to communism and continues to participate in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties each year.
