Emergency Management Department: In August, various natural disasters caused a total of 8.887 million people to be affected to varying degrees.
Cctv newsAccording to @ Emergency Management Department, recently, the Emergency Management Department, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Health and Wellness Commission, the General Administration of Financial Supervision, the National Bureau of Statistics, the China Meteorological Bureau, the State Grain and Reserve Bureau, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Red Cross Society of China, China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd. and other departments and units, discussed and analyzed the national natural disasters in August 2023. In August, natural disasters in China were mainly floods, droughts, typhoons and geological disasters, and wind and hail, earthquakes and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees. In August, various natural disasters caused a total of 8.887 million people to be affected to varying degrees, 168 people died and disappeared due to disasters, and 547,000 people were resettled. 11,000 houses collapsed, with 29,000 seriously damaged and 82,000 generally damaged; The affected area of crops is 2307.3 thousand hectares; The direct economic loss was 34.19 billion yuan.
The main features of natural disasters in August are as follows:
First, the Songliao Basin suffered from severe flood disasters, and local flash floods and geological disasters occurred frequently in the northwest and southwest.
Following the extremely heavy rainfall in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei at the end of July and the beginning of August, there were five heavy rainfall processes in August, with a cumulative area rainfall of 108 mm, which was 6% more than the same period of the previous year, and the southwest, south-central northwest, northeast and other places were 50% to 1 times more. A serious flood disaster occurred in Songliao basin in Northeast China, and the first flood in 2023 occurred in Songhua River. At the beginning of August, affected by the superposition of typhoon residual cloud system northward and westerly trough, heavy rainfall occurred in many places in Northeast China, some farmland in Heilongjiang and Jilin were flooded, and infrastructure such as road traffic and communication power were damaged, resulting in direct economic losses of 17.09 billion yuan; There are scattered heavy rainfall in northwest and southwest, and mountain torrents and geological disasters in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Hubei are scattered at many points. In general, floods and geological disasters have caused 4.316 million people to be affected to varying degrees, 160 people died and disappeared, 11,000 houses collapsed, and the direct economic loss was 23.23 billion yuan.
Second, the drought in North China, Northeast China and other places has been lifted, and the drought in some parts of northwest China is relatively prominent
Since the end of July, continuous heavy rainfall has occurred in North China and Northeast China, and the previous drought has been lifted, and droughts and floods have turned sharply in some areas. At present, the soil moisture in most parts of the country is generally suitable, and the soil moisture in some areas such as the eastern northwest and western North China is moderately deficient. Affected by the continuous high temperature and lack of rain, precipitation in western Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, most of Gansu, eastern Qinghai and other places in the northwest region and the inflow of rivers in the region are less, and the reservoir water storage is insufficient. In some areas, there are temporary difficulties in drinking water for people and livestock and agricultural irrigation, and the production of agriculture and animal husbandry is affected to some extent. At the peak of the drought, a total of 2.68 million people were affected to varying degrees, and the affected area of crops was 12.795 thousand hectares. In addition, droughts occurred in Hubei and Hunan, and some crops were affected.
Three, there are five typhoons in the northwest Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, and Typhoon Kanu has a great impact on the Northeast.
In August, there were five typhoons in the northwest Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, namely, No.7 typhoon Lanen, No.9 typhoon Sura, No.10 typhoon Davy, No.11 typhoon Anemone and No.12 typhoon Hongyan. This year’s No.6 typhoon "Kanu" was generated in the east of the Philippines on July 28th, and landed on the coast of zhuanghe city, Liaoning Province on August 11th with tropical depression. Heavy rainfall occurred again in many places in Northeast China, and many rivers in Songliao Basin exceeded the warning water level, and farmland waterlogged occurred in some areas. A total of 88,000 people in Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces were affected to varying degrees, and the affected area of crops was 215,000 hectares, resulting in a direct economic loss of 920 million yuan.
4. Parts of North China, East China, Northwest China and Southwest China suffered from strong convective weather and local crops were affected.
In August, there were four severe convective weather processes in China, mainly concentrated in North China, East China, Northwest China and Southwest China, with relatively heavy agricultural losses in Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and Shaanxi. Among them, in early August, local strong convective weather occurred in Wulanchabu and Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, and some crops and facilities were damaged; In mid-August, Qujing, Kunming and other places in Yunnan suffered from hail and windy weather; In late August, short-term heavy rainfall and hail weather occurred in Tongchuan and Weinan, Shaanxi Province, and some fruit and vegetable crops were affected. In addition, on August 13th, a tornado hit Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, killing two people. Overall, the wind and hail disaster caused 690,000 people to be affected to varying degrees, 8 people died, the affected area of crops was 912,000 hectares, and the direct economic loss was 1.12 billion yuan.
5. An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 occurred in Dezhou, Shandong Province, and many forest fires occurred in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang.
In August, there were 11 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above in mainland China. Among them, the earthquake with the highest magnitude of 5.5 in Pingyuan County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province on August 6 was the strongest earthquake in Shandong Province in recent years, which caused more than 2,900 houses in Dezhou and Liaocheng to be damaged to varying degrees and caused direct economic losses of 230 million yuan. The remaining earthquakes of magnitude 4 or so did not cause obvious disaster losses. In addition, according to preliminary statistics, there were 36 forest fires in August, including 21 in Inner Mongolia and 14 in Heilongjiang, all of which were caused by lightning strikes. There was no grassland fire.



