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1. Property damage. €2.2 billion (insured damage) Displaced. 3,000+. In 2024, Germany experienced flooding. In particular, in June 2024, significant flooding struck Southern Germany, leading to the death of 6 people and the failure of several dams in the region, requiring the evacuation of several municipalities and rescue missions. [ 1]
More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) -A firefighter died while trying to rescue trapped residents and several thousand people were forced to leave their homes as heavy rain caused flooding in southern ...
1756 Düren earthquake. On 18 February 1756, at about 8 am, one of the strongest earthquakes in Central Europe, the strongest reported in Germany to date, struck Düren. [2] [6] The hypocentre is judged to have been at 14–16 km. [7] It followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by several months and was the culmination of a series of quakes in ...
In July 2021, several European countries were affected by severe floods. Some were catastrophic, causing deaths and widespread damage. The floods started in the United Kingdom as flash floods causing some property damage and inconvenience. Later floods affected several river basins across Europe including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany ...
June 2, 2024 at 6:32 AM. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Flooding, high river levels and heavy rain led to the death of a firefighter and disrupted train travel in southern Germany on Sunday. The ...
Aerial footage released on July 18 showed the town of Altenburg in Ahrweiler, Germany, flooded as the death toll in the country rose to over 160.German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the village ...
Czech Republic, Poland, Germany. The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion (3.8 billion euros in the Czech Republic and Poland and 330 million euros ...