Understanding Flood Causes and Types
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ScribdTranslationsFLOODING
SOME DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS
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FLOOD:
Presence of water in places
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is usually
they find dry. In general
caused by heavy rains
that the ground cannot
absorb or overflow from
rivers,
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WHAT ARE THE
CAUSES?
ü Meteorological phenomena
ü Dismantle
ü Failures of hydraulic works
ü Increase in the waterproofed surface
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TYPES OF
FLOOD
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According to the origin, it is
say that it provokes her:
FLUVIAL: due to overflow of
rivers due to rain or melting snow.
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patróSTidal
n waves: for
tides, winds or tsunamis.
FOR BREAKAGES of works
hydraulic: dams, embankments,
etc.
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In 2003, the city of Santa Fe suffered the greatest
water disaster in Argentine history, with 23
dead people as a result of the admission
from the waters of the Salado River to the urban area.
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A violent earthquake of 8.9 magnitude on the scale of
Richter, followed by a tsunami with waves of up to
10 meters high, shook the northeast of Japan
in 2011.
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Strong winds periodically cause,
impressive rises of the Río de la Plata.
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On the night of July 16, 2000, the dam
enabled less than a year ago and whose
construction took 14 years, it gave way at the end
south of the main wall. Releasing the 500
millions of liters of water accumulated, that
they shot off toward the least sector
inhabited
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According to the time it takes
in producing and the
thrust intensity of the
current
SUDDEN OR FLASH FLOOD:
It presents itself in a very short time,
the waters
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speeds and a large flow. A river
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grows in less than two hours from
from the beginning of a heavy rain. They can
to originate from the breaking of walls
or ponds that the same flood
could have created by piling up the
materials that it drags or by possible
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derrumbes de tierra. Produce
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Flash flood of November 24
2009 in the town of Embalse, Province of Córdoba.
In minutes, the rainwater reached between 0.80.
and 1.20 meters in the houses on Malvinas street
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Argentina. an hour later the water had
bajado, dejando suciedad y destrucción.
SLOW FLOODING:
It is characterized by the rising water level in
gradual form. It originates from:
• Intense downpours that overflow the rivers and
they affect neighboring places.
• When heavy downpours fall over valleys or
flat lands, such as plains or plateaus,
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Rains persist, the plains are filling.
• Land with little slope that does not allow
let the waters flow and in the absence of drains
or channels remain stagnant.
• When rivers are diverted due to erosion
losing its course.
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Slow flooding in Villa Lago Epecuén,
Province of Buenos Aires, November 10, 1985 by the
overflow of the Epecuén lagoon. The water was rising 1
cm per hour, by the week it had reached 2 meters.
In 1993, the city was 10 meters below the
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water. In 2010, the ghost of Villa Lago
FLOOD IN CITY:
Many cities because of their geography and the
insufficiency of the sewer networks before
strong rains, are affected by streams that
flooded its streets, causing the loss of
lives, the deterioration of housing and roads.
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How is rain measured?
fall?
RAIN GAUGE
has 300 years of
antiquity, although
rudimentary, even today
has not been replaced
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THE ORGANIZATION
METEOROLOGICAL
WORLD ESTABLISHES:
v The diameter of the
funnel: 20 cm
approx.
v The capacity of
measuring tube:
up to 50 mm
v The height of
poste: 1, 35 mts
v Location: far
of roofs, trees
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or any
One LITRE fallen in a METRE
SQUARE, without slipping or
evaporate, would reach a
height of 1 MILLIMETER.
A precipitation of 30 mm
it tells us that 30 liters fell
per square meter of
surface.
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A FLOOD:
IS IT MORE LIKELY IN
WINTER OR IN SUMMER?
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THE SEASON OF
RAINS IN OUR
LOCALITY EXTENDS
DE
NOVEMBER MARCH
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STUDY FOR THE
Basin of the
SANTA LOCALITY
ROSA THE AVERAGE
ANNUAL RAINFALL IS:
850 MM to 1000 MM
WITH A MINIMUM OF
600MM
AND A MAXIMUM OF 1350
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BEING THE YEAR 1982/83
THE DRIEST WITH 656
MM
AND THE YEAR 1978/79 THE
WETTER WITH
1344MM
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