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The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely.
In 1931 Central China experienced a devastating flood that inundated an area equivalent in size of England and half of Scotland, affected the lives of an estimated 52 million people, and killed as many as 2 million.
23 gru 2021 · Whenever the lower Yangtze basin has gone through consistent, heavy rainfall, the consequences have always been a disaster as flooding is the outcome. In 1931, the Chinese saw floods covering more than 30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), killing thousands and causing massive destruction in their wake.
Yangtze River floods, floods of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in central and eastern China that have occurred periodically and often have caused considerable destruction of property and loss of life. Among the most recent major flood events are those of 1870, 1931, 1954, 1998, 2010, and 2020.
The 1935 Yangtze flood struck China during a decade of flooding, famine and social turmoil. [2] It is considered to be the fourth deadliest flood in recorded history, with a death toll of 145,000 and displacement of millions. [2] As a result of the flood, millions of survivors were faced with hardship due to displacement, injury, loss of property as well as food shortages and famine.
13 lis 2009 · On August 25, 1931, after months of torrential flooding, levees around the city of Gaoyou, China, break and the Yangtze River overflows, killing between 10,000 and 15,000 in a single night.
