The video was originally published on YouTube in 2019, meaning it predates the country’s recent floods. Fact Check: At least 41 people have been killed as a result of heavy rains and flash floods in Northern India, according toCNN. New Delhi officials raced to open up jammed flood gates...
An overview of the failure of the government to install adequate infrastructure in preparation for natural disasters is presented. Details of the effect of the floods on the country's rural poor are outlined. The impact of the rapid rotation of civil servants in India is explored.Wonacott...
Trends in flood magnitude, frequency and seasonality in Germany in the period 1951-2002 During the last decades several destructive floods in Germany led to the impression that the frequency and/or magnitude of flooding has been increasing. In... T Petrow,B Merz - 《Journal of Hydrology》 被...
The lives and livelihoods of millions dwelling across the IGP are profoundly affected by this behavior of dipole pattern of monsoon rainfall over India with extreme floods and droughts10,11,12. This has emerged as a pivotal subject within the monsoon research community. Recent research conducted by...
A few occurrences of minor earthquakes have been reported in Nigeria, but the greatest hazards posed by natural disasters during the last 20 yr have been from floods, soil and gully erosion and landslides. Flash floods occur frequently in various cities during the rainy season, but the hazard ...
social and political situations in the Visigothic Kingdom and al-Andalus (in medieval times Muslim-ruled part of the Iberian Peninsula) between the 5thand 10thcentury CE53. In medieval and early modern times, floods and droughts were often seen as acts of God54,55, leading to the adoption ...
Great earthquake events could cause massive casualties and ecological destruction (Wei et al., 2021; Fan et al., 2022), and induce secondary geological hazards including debris flows (Cui et al., 2012), landslides (Xu et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2021c) and outburst floods (Wu et al....
Causes of Urban Floods in India: Study of Mumbai in 2006 and Chennai in 2015 Flooding is an accumulation of water in an area either by direct rainfall irresistible to the volume of drainage systems or a spill of huge amount of water... A Baghel - International Conference on Disaster & Ris...
Paleoflood evidence for a natural upper bound to flood magnitudes in the Colorado River Basin The existence of an upper limit to the magnitude of floods in a region is a long-standing and controversial hypothesis in flood hydrology. Regional envelop... Y Enzel,LL Ely,PK House,... - 《Wate...
Studies of the multi-scale climate variability of the Asian monsoon are essential to an advanced understanding of the physical processes of the global climate system. In this paper, the progress achieved in this field is systematically reviewed, with a focus on the past several years. The achieve...