Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
A record-breaking April rainfall has turned the streets of Buenos Aires into canals and killed at least 48 people in the surrounding province. The flash floods forced thousands of people from their homes in the city of La Plata.
Associated Press
| Sep 29, 2012
A tornado swept through a fair ground in a Spanish town in Valencia province Saturday, knocking down a Ferris wheel and injuring 35 people. Floods have rocked the same southern part of the country since Friday. As of Saturday, the death toll from ...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 24, 2012
Tropical storm Isaac is hurtling toward Haiti, a country still devastated by a massive earthquake two and a half years ago. The deforested mountains around the capital, Port-au-Prince, make it vulnerable to flash flooding. Thousands of quake sur...
Russia Today
| Jul 25, 2012
Beicheying Village in Beijing's Fangshan District recorded 46 centimetres (18 inches) of rain on Saturday as the capital experienced its heaviest downpour in six decades. At least 37 people died in Beijing and it's not yet clear how many of the de...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 12, 2012
Heavy rain and floods have killed at least 20 people in southwestern Japan as tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate their homes on the island of Kyushu. Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
Russia Today
| Jul 8, 2012
Russia's Krasnodar region is coming to terms with the sheer scale of the devastation inflicted after flash floods struck overnight on Friday. Many people woke up to a nightmare, with their loved ones simply washed away into the darkness. At leas...
Al Jazeera English
| May 7, 2012
Rescuers have been digging through mud and debris searching for bodies after a flash flood swept through west Nepal killing at least 21 people and leaving dozens missing, police have said. A torrent of water swept away scores of houses, vehicles ...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 20, 2011
A state of national disaster has been declared in the Philippines. Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi have killed almost one thousand people, and the local government is preparing temporary communal tombs to house many of the bodies. ...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 18, 2011
At least 436 people have been killed in widespread flooding in the southern Philippines, as tropical storm Washi raked across the region, the Philippine Red Cross said. The Red Cross, told the Associated Press on Saturday that the death toll had ...
Euronews
| Nov 23, 2011
Four people have been killed by flash flooding in Italy. The victims died when they were swept away by mud and debris after 24 of torrential rain in the Sicilian village of Saponara. Rescue crews are still looking for survivors as reports ...
— Dec 28, 2011 at 01:52 am
...and Communication to upgrade the road recently. Apart from Santubong, flash flood was also experienced by residents in Kampung Tupong Ulu. On Mo...
— Dec 29, 2012 at 09:21 am
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale of less than six hours. The temporary availability of water is often utilized by foliage with rapid germination and short growth cycle, and by specially adapted animal life.
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