Tag: Floods

After the Fukushima crisis, there have been calls to test nuclear power plants against earthquakes and floods.
Recent disasters across the world have raised safety concerns and Russian inventors could soon be cashing in on those fears.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) Last summer's disastrous Pakistan floods that killed more than 2,000 people and left more than 20 million injured or homeless were caused by a rogue weather system that wandered hundreds of miles farther west than is normal for such systems, new research shows.


Storm systems that bring widespread, long-lasting rain over eastern India and Bangladesh form over the Bay of Bengal, at the east edge of India, said Robert Houze, a University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor. But Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea west of India, is substantially more arid and its storms typically produce only locally heavy rainfall.