FLOODS AROUND THE WORLD IN 2009
Abstract
In 2009, the Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO), USA, recorded 165 major floods around the world. Most of them occurred in Southeast Asia, especially in the Philippines. The 2009 floods forced twelve million people to migrate and leave their homes behind. There were more than 4,000 casualties of floods that covered an area of 22 million square kilometers. The 2009 floods in Slovenia were insignificant on a global scale.
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