2010 China floods

[6][11] In late May 2010, heavy rainfall caused a train derailment in Jiangxi, killing at least 19 people, and the closure of the Shanghai-Kunming railway line for 24 hours due to a landslide.

The death toll from the floods continued to rise,[28] as floodwaters began to recede in some areas by the end of June.

[33] After experiencing severe drought, heavy rains triggered a landslide in Guizhou Province around 2:30 pm on June 28 that trapped 99 people in the village of Dazhai, Gangwu Township, Anshun.

[38] More than 1,100 rescue workers searched to find the remaining victims, including up to 30 children and infants, and eight of the original missing turned up alive.

[29] The local and provincial governments provided tents, quilts, blankets, clothing, and water dispensers to the affected residents.

[29] Flooding destroyed a bridge in the province on July 7, travel was disrupted in 20 counties, and the town of Taining was completely underwater at one point.

[49][50][51] The landslide buried half of Chengguan Township, the county seat, surrounding the village with water and destroying an area 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 500 metres (1,600 ft) wide, and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) deep before water levels receded.

The Bailong River was dammed by the landslide and started to overflow around 1 am on August 8, creating a landslide lake 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, 100 metres (330 ft) wide and 9 metres (30 ft) deep, holding 1.5 million m3 of water and submerging parts of the town, forcing 19,000 people downstream.

The death toll continued to rise, and more rain fell in the area afterward, hampering relief efforts.

[52][53][54] A rare national day of mourning was held in China to remember the victims of the Gansu mudslide on August 15.

[49] A landslide in the village of Wangong, Hanyuan County, left 21 people missing after burying 58 homes on July 27 and forcing 4,000 to evacuate.

[18] In Guanghan, a train traveling from Xi'an to Kunming along the Baoji-Chengdu Railway derailed after floods washed away a section of a bridge on August 19.

All ferry service in the Reservoir was halted as total flow rate exceeded 45,000 m3/s, although the crest of the flooding passed the dam by July 24.

[65] By early August, a thick layer of garbage covering 50,000 square metres (540,000 sq ft) and 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) deep, including tree branches, plastic bottles, and domestic waste, had been swept into the reservoir since July and threatened to clog the shipping locks at the wall of the dam.

[67] In the city of Luoyang, Henan, a bridge on the Yi River collapsed as onlookers crowded it to watch the flooding, 51 people were killed with 15 missings.

[60] In Huilai County in Guangdong, 604 millimetres (23.8 in) of rain fell in six hours, the fastest rainfall accumulation recorded there in approximately 50 years.

Sixty-two thousand houses were destroyed and 193,000 damaged, while direct economic losses reached 45 billion yuan.

[6][71] On July 28, several thousand barrels from two chemical plants in Jilin City were washed into the Songhua River by the floods.

Three soldiers of the People's Liberation Army in Jilin drowned after working to remove the barrels and control the flooding.

[73] In the city of Baishan, near the border with North Korea, an island of garbage covering 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq ft) blocked water flow upstream from the Yunfeng Dam after it became clogged at a bridge.

[75] In Linjiang City, bordering North Korea on the Yalu, three townships were cut off by floods and mudslides, and 38,000 residents were relocated.

[74] Workers started repairing fifty-one damaged small reservoirs and fortifying riverbanks in the province after the Songhua River surged to twice as high as normal.

[76] Other areas of Northern and Northeastern China received flooding rains, including Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol, Hebei, and Shandong.

[80] The river's flow hit a peak of 27,000 m3/s on August 21, flooding 44 townships and causing 158 embankment breaches.

[82] In Huludao City, ten workers were stranded on an island created by flooding before being rescued, after China National Highway 102 was disrupted by floodwaters.

[78] A developing tropical storm was forecast to bring more heavy rains to the Yalu River region by August 28.

[29] In Puladi Township, Gongshan, a landslide in June killed 11 people at a hydropower station construction site.

The slide also dammed up parts of the Salween River near the border with Myanmar, causing water levels at its upper reaches to rise 6 metres (20 ft).

[73] Floods triggered by torrential rains pounded Akto County on July 6 and resulted in 6 deaths and 2 missings.

[87] On the morning of August 17, a 540-metre-long (590 yd) bridge spanning the Yarkand River was destroyed by the mountain torrents, cutting off a regional block of National Highway 315.

Total rainfall in southern China, June 15–21
Total rainfall in southern China, July 6–12