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The 2010 Tennessee floods were floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread ...
The flood crest of the Gan River passed the city of Nanchang on June 23. Residents of the city of Ganzhou were protected from the flooding by drains built in the area during the Song Dynasty. Fujian Province. In Fujian, 400 victims of flooding were safely transferred and properly rehoused. Seventy-six people were killed, and 79 were missing ...
A flood insurance rate map ( FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1] The term is used mainly in the United States but similar maps exist in many other countries ...
The number of structures in 100-year flood plains in Williamson County has increased by more than 6,000 since 1994, according to updated maps from a county study. The maps use the most recent ...
The next step in the mapping process is the resolution of all comments and appeals, FEMA said. Once they are resolved, the agency will notify communities of the effective date of the final maps ...
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province facing the brunt of the damage ...
It is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to mitigate overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons. It is located between Showa and Kasukabe in Saitama prefecture, on the outskirts of the city of Tokyo in the Greater Tokyo Area.
The 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides were the result of an extreme weather event that affected Madeira Island in Portugal's autonomous Madeira archipelago on 20 February 2010. The flash flood killed 51 people, of whom 6 are still to be found, and injured 250. Around 600 people were left homeless.