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    The North Sea flood of 1978 was a storm surge which occurred over 11–12 January causing extensive coastal flooding and considerable damage on the east...
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    The 1953 North Sea flood (Dutch: Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England...
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    The North Sea flood of 1962 was a natural disaster affecting mainly the coastal regions of West Germany and in particular the city of Hamburg in the night...
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    Storm tides of the North Sea are coastal floods associated with extratropical cyclones crossing over the North Sea, the severity of which is affected...
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    purpose is to prevent London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea. It needs to be raised (closed) only...
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    North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In...
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    Cyclone Xaver (or Storm Xaver), also known as the North Sea flood or tidal surge of 2013, was a winter storm that affected northern Europe. Force 12 winds...
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  • parts of California in water. The Burchardi Flood was a storm tide that struck the North Sea coast of North Frisia and Dithmarschen on the night between...
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    The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation...
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    of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of low-lying Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water...
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  • This is a list consisting of the deadliest floods worldwide with a minimum of 60 deaths. Only floods having caused 10 fatalities or more in 21st-century...
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    A flood basalt (or plateau basalt) is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that covers large stretches of land or the ocean...
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    tamer of China's Great Flood. Dragon Kings of the Four Seas. Ao Kuang, Dragon King of the Eastern Sea. Ao Qin, Dragon King of the Southern Sea. Ao Run...
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  • European floods List of flash floods Storm tides of the North Sea Wikimedia Commons has media related to Floods in Europe. Magnus A. Mardal: Storofsen (in Norwegian)...
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    reduce the availability of drinking water. A 30 cm (12 in) rise in sea level would flood 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) of the Nile Delta, displacing...
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    Land reclamation in the Netherlands (category History of the Netherlands)
    compared to the potential cost of water defences. From these calculations follows an acceptable flood risk from the sea at one in 4,000–10,000 years, while...
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    Canvey Island (category Port cities and towns of the North Sea)
    1911 and 1951. The North Sea flood of 1953 devastated the island, killing 58 islanders and leading to the temporary evacuation of the 13,000 residents...
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    The Missoula floods (also known as the Spokane floods or the Bretz floods or Bretz's floods) were cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically...
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    Kent, Graham (July 2011). "Loading of the San Andreas fault by flood-induced rupture of faults beneath the Salton Sea". Nature Geoscience. 4 (7): 486–492...
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  • simply shallow. An inland sea is only an epeiric sea when a continental interior is flooded by marine transgression due to sea level rise or epeirogenic...
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    though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present. In times of flood, the salt content of the Dead Sea can drop from its usual 35%...
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    outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake. An event similar to a GLOF, where a body of water...
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    2006–2007 Southeast Asian floods were a series of floods that mostly affected Malaysia from 18 December 2006 to 13 January 2007. The floods were caused by above...
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    storm flood height will change in future at the Baltic Sea. At both seas, a rise in storm flood height is expected due to climate change related sea level...
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    River Nene (category Rivers of Cambridgeshire)
    extensive coastal flooding. Higher water levels were reached than during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953. Flooding affected both banks of the river at...
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    The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New...
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    Wells-next-the-Sea is a port town on the north coast of Norfolk, England. The civil parish has an area of 16.31 km2 (6.30 sq mi) and in 2001 had a population of 2...
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  • 2015. "February 2004 North Island Storm ( 2004-02-14 )". hwe.niwa.co.nz. Retrieved 15 January 2023. "July 2004 Bay of Plenty Flooding and Landslides - HWE"...
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    Associated Press. 1978. Retrieved 2011-12-04. "Workers Search Debris of Texas Flood; 21 Dead". Toledo Blade. Associated Press. 1978. Retrieved 2011-12-07...
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    it expands over the semi-flooded grasslands during the flood season. Slightly downstream of Bor, the Bahr el Zeraf ("Sea of the Giraffes") river branches...
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