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21 maj 2022 · In the last few decades, almost all types of major hazards except volcanic eruptions have hit China; these include earthquakes, typhoons, floods, droughts and sandstorms, storm surges, landslides and debris flows, hailstorms, cold waves, heat waves, pests and rodent disease, forest and grassland fires, and red tides.
23 kwi 2024 · Multiple days of heavy rains have lashed southern China, unleashing deadly floods and threatening to upend the lives of tens of millions of people as rescuers rush to evacuate residents trapped...
Natural disasters in China are the result of several different natural hazards that affect the country according to its particular geographic and geologic features affecting both humans and animals.
Major natural disasters in China include meteorological disasters, earthquake and geological disasters, ocean disasters, biological disasters, and forest and grassland fire. Altogether, there are over 100 types of various natural hazards.
1 paź 2019 · Here we summarize the various types of outburst floods in China, assess their causes and characteristics, and identify research gaps that need to be addressed to improve outburst flooding research in the future.
19 maj 2016 · This chapter analyzes flood hazard and flood losses in China, and reveals their spatial patterns and temporal changes in the past 60 years, from the beginning of the People’s Republic of...
11 sie 2023 · The Chinese town engulfed by a flood to save Beijing. Wan, who wished to reveal only his last name, lives in Beijing but was alerted to a distress message on WeChat on 2 August. The mountain...