In 1889, the South Fork Dam north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania collapsed killing 2,200 people. It may seem easy to brush that off and say we know how ...

1. 1887 Yellow River Flood | China. The Huang-Ho River, more famously known as the Yellow River due to its colour, breached its banks in September 1887.

The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions ...

22 мар. 2024 г. · The deadliest flood in recorded history was the 1931 China floods, which affected the Yangtze River, Yellow River, and Huai River. The estimated ...

22 июн. 2017 г. · 2. The Central China Flood may have killed as many as 3.7 million people. ... Severe flooding in Hankou, China in September of 1931. In the summer ...

The Great Flood of 1889 – Johnstown, Pennsylvania: The most famous flash flood and one of the all-time worst disasters in American history when the South Fork ...

The dimensions of the proposed Zanclean megaflood make it the largest known event of this kind on Earth, one-to-two orders of magnitude larger than well- ...

On August 1st, 1993, the Mississippi River at St. Louis crested at 49.58 feet, the highest stage ever recorded.

It inundated 27,000 square miles, an area about the size of New England, killing as many as 1,000 people and displacing 700,000 more.