What the records say
- When
- 8 Aug 1975
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 32.98° N, 113.59° E
- Description
- The Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province, fails after Typhoon Nina; over 200,000 people perish.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1975 Banqiao Dam failure.
1975 Banqiao Dam failure
Failure of multiple dams in China
In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China, collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon Nina. The ensuing flood was among the deadliest floods in China and was the third-deadliest flood in history. It affected 12,000 km2 with a total population of 10.15 million, including around 30 cities and counties, with estimates of the death toll ranging from 26,000 to 240,000.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Китае произошла катастрофа на дамбе на реке Жухэ, официальное число жертв — около 26 тысяч человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “台风尼娜为河南等地带来暴雨，最终引致河南“75·8”水库溃坝，驻马店地区板桥、石漫滩两座大型水库，以及数十座中小型水库同时垮坝溃决，造成29个县市被淹”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page