What are the hazards associated with flooding?
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- What are the hazards associated with flooding?
- Factors that effect flooding
- Catchment size and shape
- Drainage and river characteristics
- Geology types
- Urbanisation/ rurality
- River length and size
- General land use
- Valley steepness
- Altitude
- Precipitation regime
- General climate
- Drainage density
- Central European Floods 2013
- May-June 2013
- 25 killed
- $22bn damage
- Effected Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
- Causes
- 1 in 100 year low pressure
- 1 foot of rain in 2 days
- Jet Stream trapped storm over Europe
- Responses
- 7000 people evacuated from Eilenburg, Saxony
- Emergency services responded quickly
- Aid and refuge areas set-up
- Hurricane Katrina 2005
- Louisiana, Mississipi
- Optional evacuation in preparation
- Surfdome set up as evacuation centre
- 7500 national guardsmen
- 2 helicopters from US Navy ship to rescue and drop supplies
- Southeast Asian Floods 2011
- 2828 killed
- Authorities made brave efforts and rescued many survivors
- However, low economic development meant inability to prepare or respond fully
- Caused by particularly bad monsoon season
- Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, Myanmar, and Malaysia effected
- $45bn economic damage in Thailand
- 766,267 homes underwater in Thailand
- 1,327,740 ha of farmland underwater in Thailand
- Factors that effect flooding
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