World's biggest flood disaster in History Related Important Events ⚡

Date of EventEvent / Incident
14 December 1287More than 50,000 people died during the flooding of St. Lucia in the northwestern Netherlands.
11 October 1634The tide of a storm on the coast of the northern Frisia caused massive floods, killing at least 8,000 people killed and divided the Strand Island into small islands.
25 December 1717Christmas flood: A devastating flood on the northwest coast between the Netherlands and Denmark killed thousands and left them homeless.
19 November 1824About ten thousand people died in floods in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia.
11 March 1864A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused itto fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than600 homes.
05 June 1882Bombay (now Mumbai) killed nearly one lakh people due to hurricanes and floods.
28 September 1887About 1.5 million people died in the Hwang-ho river in China.
21 March 1913The Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio killed over 360 and destroyed 20,000 homes.
18 December 1916The French defeated the German forces around the city of Vadun-Sur-MUus in northeast France, one of the longest fighting and the most floods in the First World War.
08 December 1923Many of Rome's Italians became homeless and had to flee to the hills as a result of heavy floods. The Tiber River is at a record height.
15 April 1927Due to torrential rains, the Mississippi River was ruled out of its levy system at 145 places, causing the worst floods in the history of the United States.
12 March 1928600 people died due to floods caused by the breaking of the St. Francis Dam in California.
02 August 1929Kansas, Okhla, as well as a high -temperature flood in addition to droughts like crossing in western Missouri. The temperature was going above 100 degrees and it reached 107 degrees throughout the canns. This is the hottest temperature recorded by the weather center.
04 March 1930More than 700 people died in the terrible floods in France.
27 July 1935Two lakh people died due to floods in Yangtze and Hoang River in China.
02 September 1937A thunderstorm has hit Hong Kong with disastrous consequences with 500 deadly deaths and the city is submerged. Body count is expected to increase as floods indicate fire.
30 May 1948A gap catching the Colombia River broke, flooding that destroyed Oneport, Oregon, America, only five years after its construction.
01 February 1953More than 2500 people died in floods in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland, in which only 1836 people died in the Netherlands.
13 November 1957Venice was also flooded by the floods of Italy's Po Valley.
08 August 195920,000 people died in a Taiwan flood.
09 October 1963A landslide from Wajontdam in Northern Italy displaced a large amount of water, causing waves and floods, causing far-off villages and killed about 2,000 people.
14 December 1963The Dam that binds the Baldwin Hills reservoir in Los Angeles releases 277 houses destroying houses.
12 July 1970The severe floods in the Alaknanda River killed 600 people.
27 January 1974The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of Brisbane,broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas.
02 January 1976The Gale of January 1976 began, which resulted in coastalflooding around the southern North Sea coasts, leading to at least 82deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
06 November 1977Kelly Barns Dam collapsed in Stephens County, USA, USA and resulting in the floods killed 39 people and damaged $ 2.8 million.
28 January 1984Tropical Storm Domoina made land fall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
08 May 1984Themes Barrier was officially opened on 8 May 1984 by Queen Elizabeth II. It was designed to protect against exceptional high tides and storms going above the North Sea. The construction cost of the barrier with an additional £ 100 million for the protection of the river was around £ 534 million.
14 July 1987Montreal received more than 100 mm (3.9 in) rainfall in two-and-a-half hours of rain, causing severe floods and more than $ 220 million.
22 July 1993During the great flood of 1993 (depiction of floods), Kescia, Illinois, near the US, broke, the entire city was forced to vacate the markets run by the Core of Engineers of the Army.
07 October 1993The Great Mississippi and Missouri River Flood ended for 103 days, as the Mississippi River in St. Louis finally fell into the flood stage.
14 December 1999There was a flood due to torrential rains in Varagas, Venezuela, resulting in thousands of deaths, destruction of thousands of houses and the state's infrastructure completely collapsed.
29 February 2000In Mozambique near about 700 people died in the flood.
29 January 2000In Mozambique near about 700 people died in the flood.
22 October 2001Britain's worst floods in twenty years affect the major parts because forecasts predict more abundant rainfall.
14 September 2003Guinea-Bissau President Kumbha Illa was included in the floodless coup.
23 September 2004At least 1,070 people died in the post-hurricane floods in Haiti.
29 August 2005Hurricane Katrina's storm gave rise to several violations around New Orleans, causing floods about 80% of the city and drowned surrounding areas for a week.
21 September 2005At least 50 people die after a series of storms and floods in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh and India. Currently many more people are missing, and the authorities fear the safety of more than a hundred fishermen who depend on going to the sea for their livelihood.
24 August 2005Heavy floods in Switzerland, Austria and Germany evacuated thousands of people.
07 September 2008Xinhua reports that 20 people have been trapped in a coal mine in Henan province of China after the flood.
30 August 2008An Indian Army boat, who came in 2008, killed less than 25 people.
26 May 2008Severe floods began in eastern and southern China and 148 people died and 1.3 million people were forced to evacuate.
17 August 2009A turbine violently broke the power station at the Sayano-Shushesia dam in Khakaasia, Russia, flooding the power station, causing widespread power failure and 75 people killed.
09 September 2009Floods in Istanbul, which is the worst and most devastating in the last 80 years, killed about 20 people and injured 20.
25 November 2009Zakadah, Saudi Arabia, caused floods due to severe rains, killing 122 people and thousands of Haj pilgrims were trapped.
27 March 2009The dam of Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia's Tangerang District, failed, resulting in floods that killed at least 100 people.
06 August 2010Due to cloudburst and heavy rains overnight, floods, musledides and debris were swept away in a large part of Ladakh, the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing at least 255 people.
31 July 2010900 people died in the floods in Pakistan.
09 August 2010The United Nations described the 2010 floods in Pakistan as an epidemic as an epidemic of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Kashmir earthquake of 2005 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. This is because the estimated 15 million people are affected, and floods and land slides are overshadowing the country.

World's biggest flood disaster in History Questions and Answer ⚡

Question: What production is meant by 'Operation Flood'?

 ◉ increasing milk production

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 ◉ Increasing irrigation facility

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 ◉ By production of grains

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 ◉ Flood control

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Question: Operation Flood' is related to?

 ◉ Yellow revolution

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 ◉ Black revolution

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 ◉ milk production

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 ◉ Blue revolution

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Question: Operation Flood' is related to which task?

 ◉ milk production

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 ◉ Increased control

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 ◉ Wheat production

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 ◉ water harvesting

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Question: Why was "Operation Flood" started in 1970?

 ◉ to save the cows

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 ◉ to increase milk production

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 ◉ to raise the water of the rivers

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 ◉ to avoid flooding

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Question: With whom is flash flood related?

 ◉ swarm storm

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 ◉ Cyclonic storm

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 ◉ Tornado

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 ◉ tsunami

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Question: National Flood Commission (R.B.A.) is related to?

 ◉ river water

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 ◉ Flooding

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 ◉ hurricane

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 ◉ these three

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Question: Why have the incidents of floods increased recently in North India?

 ◉ Causes of environmental pollution

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 ◉ Causes of water

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 ◉ Causes

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 ◉ Increase in forest harvesting in runoff sector

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Question: What was the focus of the Operation Flood programme?

 ◉ To cultivate indigo

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 ◉ To increase wheat production

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 ◉ Increase milk production

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 ◉ To reduce the tax of fields

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Question: What is the wide and low embankment built along the banks of the river channel during floods called?

 ◉ cliff

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 ◉ Flood area

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 ◉ Delta

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 ◉ the pier

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