On the Yellow River in Plymouth, there has been a river gauge since 1948. All are tied into the U.S. Geological Survey. The origin of the proverbial “100-year flood” lies with the U.S ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The crushed skeletons of children point to an earthquake and catastrophic flood on China's Yellow River 4,000 years ago that could be the source of a legendary "Great Flood" at ...

Kaifeng was renowned for experiencing severe flood problems from the Yellow River, with the city being ... Hong Kong protestors and US (UPDATE) The book, originally published in 2003, helped ...

On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt the ...

ZHENGZHOU -- The Yellow River is likely to flood this rainy season from July to October, the China Meteorological Administration has warned. Rainfall was expected to increase by 20 to 50 percent ...

The deluge may have even changed the Yellow River ... the great flood is best understood as a creation myth that later dynasties used to legitimize their rules. In an influential book explaining ...

Languages: English, Spanish Researchers have investigated a catastrophic Yellow River flood that decimated the ... Xu and Rivka Gonen—authors of the book The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History ...

ZHENGZHOU -- China's second-longest river, the Yellow River, saw its first flood peak this year due to continuous rainfall in its middle reaches, authorities said Thursday. Peak flow at the ...

adds greater pressure to the work of flood control. According to Hong Shangchi, deputy general engineer of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission the river course becomes remarkably broad when ...

As the largest of its kind on the Yellow River, the Xiaolangdi Dam, designed to control flood and ice, to dredge, and to ensure water supply and power generation, directly affects the downstream ...