The 1931 Central China floods or the Central China floods of 1931 were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China.

Of particular concern is the possibility of impact generated tsunamis, which is receiving increasing attention from all countries with extended coastal areas.

Inundations in Antananarivo, Madagascar via MiranaPriscilla on twitter

The worst floods occurred in March 2011 and displaced 21,000 people.

It ranks 20th in the list of worst floods in history.

A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in December 2010.

Romania The 2006 European floods were one of the most devastating natural disaster from the History of Romania.

On a smaller scale, European countries like Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic have also suffered serious flooding.

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

It is mainly associated with bad things happening to people which includes drowning, missing, flooding and many more.

India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar could experience floods followed by droughts in coming decades.

The 2009 Karachi floods () in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26 people.

The 2011 China floods are a series of floods from June to September 2011 that occurred in central and southern parts of the People's Republic of China.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

Disbursal of relief funds to help Italy rebuild after severe floods in 2011 took almost a year, owing to politicization in the Council.

Even as I speak, my own country, Guyana, a low lying coastal State, is experiencing the worst floods to have hit our country in over 100 years.

Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube.

When disaster strikes the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things there is nothing to fall back on.

Thailand s worst flooding in the past half century killed more than 600 people and displaced thousands of residents and workers from their homes and factories.

In July 1997, the city was heavily affected by a flood of the River Oder, the worst flooding in post war Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Floods In 2009 October heavy floods occurred, isolating 350 villages and leaving millions homeless, which is believed to be first occurrence in 1000 years.

Over the past 18 million years or so, this hotspot has generated a succession of violent eruptions and less violent floods of basaltic lava.

The 2006 and 2007 flooding in Johor has resulted in loss of RM1.5 billion and 18 lives in addition to the temporary displacement of 110,000 people.

Other countries included the Islamic Republic of Iran (Bam earthquake), Morocco (Al Hoceima earthquake), Namibia, Grenada, Haiti and Guyana (floods), and the Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal (storms and flash floods).

In 2007, an Argentine contingent including helicopters, boats and water purification plants was sent to help Bolivia against their worst floods in decades.

In January 2005, torrential rains caused severe flooding in the densely populated coastal regions of Guyana, including the capital, Georgetown.

In western Pakistan nearly three weeks of heavy rains resulted in severe flooding, which in turn led to the collapse of a major dam in Sind province.

The German federal state of Saxony and the Czech Republic were not as affected, because in the four years after the record floodings of 2002, the two partners built a stronger levee system along the Elbe.

In recent months, massive droughts have struck the grain producing regions of Russia and Ukraine, and enormous floods have hit Brazil and Australia now, another drought is menacing northern China s grain belt.

To date, the focus of computer modelling has primarily been on mapping tidal and fluvial flood events, but the 2007 flood events in the UK have shifted the emphasis there onto the impact of surface water flooding.

For example, at the onset of a flood, physical assets such as property and land may be damaged, while community financial aid will be severely stretched as a result of the widespread effects.

For example, epic floods in 1945 left Tripoli underwater for several days, but two years later an unprecedentedly severe drought caused the loss of thousands of head of cattle.

Parties also identified possible adverse effects on fisheries due to changes in temperature and salinity, and loss of productive habitats for many species due to sea level rise and associated flooding.

Furthermore, the possibility of major tsunami events that could be triggered by the impact of medium sized bodies (100 300 m) has now been extensively studied and all studies show that this kind of hazard is large enough to require an appropriate response.

Flood in Madagascar via Tsimoka Gasikara Wake Up Madagascar is a citizen movement that started during Madagascar's political stalemate in 2010.

The paradox of water is that it sustains life but can also cause death when it becomes a carrier of deadly microbes or takes the form of a tsunami, flash flood, storm, or hurricane.

To the south of Holland, in Zeeland, and to the north, in Frisia, this development led to catastrophic storm floods literally washing away entire regions, as the peat layer disintegrated or became detached and was carried away by the flood water.

Without going into details and figures, I would like to underscore Libya's contribution to various fields of development in African countries. We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

The 2004 hurricane season was particularly harsh in the Caribbean. Four hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne caused damaging floods between August and October.

On 27 April, UNOMIG engineers and the CIS peacekeeping force conducted a patrol to the lower Kodori valley to assess the damage to the main road as a result of torrential rainfall that had caused flooding.

A smooth transition from relief to recovery has, however, been hampered by natural disasters (six years of continuous drought were followed in 2005 by extensive flooding), internal displacement, land rights issues and urban pressures due to the large influx of returnees.

It is a necessary organizing principle that allows people to pool their resources for the common good and mobilize against common threats, whether they are floods or invading armies.

St. Lucia's flood (Sint Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on 14 December 1287 (the day after St. Lucia Day) when a dike broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the sixth largest flood in recorded history.