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Online map of flood disaster distribution in southern China in mid-to-late June 2014

Date: 2020-11-04  Editor: houxue2018    View counts: 6386   


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Map source

The online map of flood disaster distribution in southern China in mid-to-late June 2014, it is from the Atlas of natural disasters in China in 2014, the book is edited by the National Disaster Reduction Commission Office, the Disaster relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Disaster Reduction Center of Ministry of Civil Affairs, and is published by China Map Publishing House. The scale of this map is 1:23000000.

Online map of flood disaster distribution in southern China in mid-to-late June 2014

The blue part of the map shows: Disaster areas.

General situation of disaster

From June 18 to 22, a continuous heavy rainfall process occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, the northern part of the eastern part of South China and the eastern part of Southwest China. The precipitation in the southern central part of Zhejiang Province, the northern part of Jiangxi Province, Nanping of Fujian Province, Shanwei of Guangdong Province and Huangshan Mountain of Anhui Province reached 140-270 mm, the maximum precipitation was 418 mm in Haifeng, 400 mm in Lichuan, 378 mm in Jiangshan, and 318 mm in Shaowu, Fujian Province, affected by the continuous heavy rainfall, 53 rivers exceeded the warning water level. Among them, the middle reaches of Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province, the main stream of the middle reaches of Zishui River in Hunan Province and its tributaries Longmen River and Lianshui River in the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River had over guaranteed floods, and Longmen River, a tributary of the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River, suffered from flood, landslide and debris flow. The disaster caused 7.768 million people in 11 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, 28 people died, 2 people were missing, 411000 people were urgently transferred and resettled, 150000 people needed emergency living assistance; 140000 houses collapsed and 80000 houses were damaged in varying degrees; the disaster area of crops was 4735000 hectares, among them, 609000 hectares have been lost, and the direct economic loss is 7.9 billion yuan.

The flood disaster process has the following characteristics:

1.Contiguous disaster areas, Outstanding losses in Hunan and Jiangxi

The rainfall process was the strongest in June, and heavy rain occurred in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces (autonomous regions). Among them, the disaster situation in Jiangxi and Hunan is particularly prominent. The emergency resettlement population and the population in need of emergency living assistance account for more than 80% of the total loss, and the area of crops and the number of damaged houses account for more than 70% of the total loss.

2.Both urban and rural areas were affected by the disaster, and the infrastructure was seriously damaged

The disaster caused many houses collapse or damage in rural areas, and serious waterlogging and lodging of crops. In some urban areas, such as Nanchang, Xiangtan, and Nanping in Fujian, water accumulated in some urban areas, roads such as Jiaoliu railway, Yubei railway, Jihuai expressway and national highway G209 were damaged and interrupted, infrastructure such as power, communication and water conservancy were damaged in many places.

3.High incidence of mountain and hill disasters and high mortality of secondary disasters

Nearly 80% of the counties affected by the disaster occurred in mountainous and hilly areas, of which more than 50% were in mountainous counties. The rainfall process caused many secondary disasters such as landslides and mudslides, and 70% of the missing people died or disappeared due to secondary geological disasters.

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