Flood In Malaysia 2017

The flooding in penang is seen as malaysia s worst since prolonged storms hit northern and eastern states from december 2014 to january 2015.

Flood in malaysia 2017. Malaysia 25 000 evacuate floods in terengganu and kelantan 4 january 2017 by richard davies in asia news floods have forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in several states of peninsula malaysia in particular terengganu and kelantan where levels of at least 5 rivers are above the danger mark. There are two basic types of flood occur in malaysia which are flash flood and monsoonal flood. It was malaysia s worst flooding in decades forcing more than 100 000 people to flee. Kuala lumpur april 4 poor maintenance of drains and irrigation canals has reduced the flow carrying capacity of the city s drainage system triggering flash floods during thunderstorms.

In 2016 the state with the most floods was selangor with 30 incidents. An aerial view of houses and plantations submerged in floodwaters in malaysia in 2017. In malaysia as shown in figure 1 where the green shaded indicates the flood prone areas extracted from department of drainage and irrigation did for the peninsular malaysia. A flood has occurred in sabah malaysia on 18 october 2017 19 29 local time.

National disaster management agency nadma of malaysia reported that 4 118 people have been displaced to evacuation. Picture by mukhriz hazim. After the early january floods had mostly subsided further heavy rains that began around 20 january 2017 caused yet more flooding in kelantan and terengganu as well as other states in peninsular malaysia including johor pahang malacca selangor and perak and sabah which appear to be the worst affected. Seasonal flooding hits malaysia s east coast states every year and regularly results in mass evacuations.

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