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| 1996 Global Register of Major Flood Events - Scroll Down and Look For Links to Maps In The Country Column | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DFO # | Country | Detailed Locations |
Rivers | Began | Ended | Duration (days) | Dead | Displaced | Damage (USD) | Main cause | Secondary cause | Recurrence Interval (anecdotal) | Severity Class* | Hectares flooded | Hayden Code | Affected Region ( sq km) | Flood Magnitude** | MODIS flood
inundation limit file names*** |
Notes and Comments | ||
| 98 | United States | Oregon, Washington, Idaho | Chehalis, Tualatin, Cowlitz, Skokomish, Willapa, Skookumchuck, Deschutes, White, Nisqually | 26-Dec-96 | 3-Jan-97 | 9 | 10 | 50 | $ 125,000,000 | Rain and snowmelt | 1 | 272,700 | 11.5 | Flooding and mudslides. Tualatin River 3 ft above flood level. Highest snowfall in 60 years. | |||||||
| 97 | Malaysia - Tropical Storm Greg | Borneo: Sabah state | 26-Dec-96 | 28-Dec-96 | 3 | 200 | 7,000 | $ 52,000,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 73,240 | 3.0 | Tropical Storm Greg. Millions of dollars in losses of infrastructure and agriculture. |
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| 96 | Spain, Portugal | Southern Spain Provinces: Seville, Cadiz | Tigus, Guadalate | 22-Dec-96 | 26-Dec-96 | 5 | 3 | 1,800 | $ 4,000,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 36,920 | 3.1 | 1,800 forced from their homes in southern Spain, 2,000 stranded in northern Portugal. $4 million worth of crops destroyed. | |||||||
| 95 | France | Southern France: Beziers, Aude, Eastern Pyrenees | Orbe, Rhone | 5-Dec-96 | 10-Dec-96 | 6 | 50 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 26,320 | 2.9 | Train tracks flooded, cutting off transport between Narbonne and Perpignan. Dozens evacuated by helicopter from Bezier's Bas du Faubourg quarter. Orbe river rose to 12.4 meters. | |||||||||
| 94 | Venezuela | Costal areas | 3-Dec-96 | 5-Dec-96 | 3 | 10,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 181,900 | 4.7 | |||||||||||
| 93 | Greece, Bulgaria | Northern Greece: Thrace, Eastern Macedonia Southern Bulgaria |
Kosthinos, Nestos | 1-Dec-96 | 4-Dec-96 | 4 | 5 | 300 | Heavy Rain | 1 | see notes | 23,590 | 2.1 | 900 buildings flooded. 5,000 acres (2,023 hectares) of farmland flooded, cotton, tobacco and produce destroyed. | |||||||
| 92 | Albania | Northwest Albania: Lezha area | Drini | 19-Nov-96 | 21-Nov-96 | 3 | 0 | 50 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 4,000 | 1,120 | 0.4 | Dozens of farmers lost homes and livestock. Railways flooded. | |||||||
| 91 | Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Marco | Northern Provinces: Santiago, Peurto Plata | Yuna, Yaque | 17-Nov-96 | 23-Nov-96 | 7 | 3 | 3,000 | Tropical Cyclone | 17 | 1 | 6,750 | 1.6 | Tropical Storm Marco.
Major loses of rice and livestock. Thousands homeless. Highest reservoir levels since Hurricane David in 1979. |
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| 90 | Haiti | Le Borgne | 13-Nov-96 | 17-Nov-96 | 5 | 18 | 160 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 1,040 | 0.5 | 40 houses destroyed, 100 more damaged. | |||||||||
| 89 | Egypt | Provinces: Aswan, Sohag, Asyut, Minya, Qena | Nile | 13-Nov-96 | 25-Nov-96 | 13 | 23 | 1,050 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 37,940 | 5.0 | Thousands of acres of land flooded. 260 houses destroyed. | ||||||||
| 88 | Iran | Mazandaran province | 9-Nov-96 | 13-Nov-96 | 5 | 5 | 12,000 | $ 20,000,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | see notes | 16,760 | 2.1 | 10,000 houses, 239 development projects, and 4,500 hectares of agricultural land were heavily damaged. | |||||||
| 87 | Iceland | Vatnajoekull glacier | 6-Nov-96 | 7-Nov-96 | 2 | 0 | $ 12,000,000 | Snowmelt | see notes | 1 | 5,680 | 0.5 | Flooding caused by melt waters from a large volcanic eruption
under the Vatnajoekull glacier in southeastern Iceland. Billions of cubic yards of water melted
from the glacier during an eruption in October were released. Severe damage to roads and bridges. |
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| 86 | India | Andhra Pradesh State: East and West Godavari districts | 6-Nov-96 | 10-Nov-96 | 5 | 2,500 | 140,000 | $ 1,000,000,000 | Tropical Cyclone | 19 | 2 | 742,000 | 21,450 | 4.7 | Over 742,000 hectares of crops - including rice, coconut and
fruit orchards - flooded, amounting to $857 million. 350,000 houses washed away. Worst cyclone since 1977. |
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| 85 | Somolia | Central Somolia: Jowhar | Shabelle | 6-Nov-96 | 10-Nov-96 | 5 | 0 | 2,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 2,000 | 64,920 | 4.1 | Heavy rains in Ethiopian highlands caused the Shabelle River to overflow in Somalia. 1,800 hectares (4,860 acres) of maize, beans, sorghum and rice destroyed. 500 families homeless. | |||||||
| 84 | Sudan | Bahr el-Ghazal State: Bor, Tonj | Nile | 22-Oct-96 | 26-Oct-96 | 5 | 102 | 8,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | 69,800 | 4.3 | |||||||||
| 83 | India | States: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu (Madras) | 21-Oct-96 | 25-Oct-96 | 5 | 326 | 100,000 | $ 128,500,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | see notes | 177,500 | 6.8 | 1.7 million hectares of crops damaged. Heavy rains caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal. | |||||||
| 82 | Indonesia | Java: Central Java Province - Banyumas, Cilacap, Kebumen, capital city Semarang | 20-Oct-96 | 22-Oct-96 | 3 | 13 | 5,000 | $ 300,000 | Heavy Rain | 1 | see notes | 11,940 | 1.2 | 4,000 hectares of rice fields and 4,000 of soybeans destroyed. | |||||||
| 81 | United States | Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania | Muddy | 19-Oct-96 | 23-Oct-96 | 5 | 5 | 700 | Heavy Rain | 21 | |||||||||||
