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A slow-onset flood lasts for a long period of time, weeks, even months.
A rapid-onset flood lasts for a shorter period, lasting only a couple of days, but it can cause much more damage.
A flash flood can happen within minutes or hours after heavy rain. This causes the most damage to farmers and communities.
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What are the differences between Flood and landslide?
Landslide and floods are different by that landslide is a disaster that slide the part of the land and floods is a disaster that carry the rocks and the mud by the force of the water.
What are the differences between UK and Bangladesh while coping with floods?
m.e.d.c and ledc low lying and. mainly it is cost
What is the difference between floods and flash floods?
Flash floods are floods that are caused by a storm. Normal floods are caused by non-stop rain.
What the differences between erosion and deposition?
Erosion is when wind or water physically wear away at an object Deposition is the debris removed by erosion or other events (landslides, floods, etc.) accumulates (is deposited) at another location.
What are some differences between ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia?
In agriculture both economies relied on the floods of the Nile to grow grains. Egypt benefited more from this as it was in the lower Nile Valley and its delta. Nubia could tap into goods from the inland Africa, such as ivory, ebony and wild animals (elephants, rhinos, gazelles and the like).
Difference between Bangladesh floods and UK floods?
The difference(s) between floods in the UK and Bangladesh are in Bangladesh, the dirty and clean water mixes together and contributes to the formation of diseases in the water. This also happens in the UK; however, the UK can afford to buy clean water for drinking in these cases.
What are the similarities between UK flood and Pakistan flood?
the uk floods were caused by heavy rain and the river banks burst and the pakistan floods were caused by monsoon rain
What are floods that happen suddenly called?
The Floods that happen suddenly are called Flash Floods.
What are the similarities between heavy rain and runoff?
Both heavy rain and runoff can cause floods.
How do meteorologists classify floods?
Floods are classified by their likelihood to happen in a given time period, or they classified into 5 categories flash floods,coastal floods, urban floods river floods,and ponding.
What is the facts about floods?
facts about floods
Are there floods in Italy?
yes there are floods in italy
