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Table 3 The past flooding events in Alexandria [10]

From: Geotechnical modelling of the climate change impact on world heritage properties in Alexandria, Egypt

Date

Rainfall height

Rainfall duration

Economic loss

Human loss

Refs

Dec 31, 1991

74 mm

N/A

N/A

80 died

Reliefweb (1996)

January 26, 2004

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CRED (2009)

November 30,2010

180 mm

12 h

N/A

2500 family affected

World bank (2011)

December 12, 2010

15 mm

9 h

28 building collapse

11 injured 18 died

World bank (2011), CRED (2009), the weather company (2017), Crisis and disaster management in Alexandria

November 14, 2011

12 mm

9 h

N/A

N/A

The weather company (2017)

September 29, 2015

5 mm

2 h

N/A

N/A

Williams and Ismail (2015)

October 25, 2015

53 mm

18 h

9.7 million dollars

16 injured 13 died

CRED (2009), Zevenbergen et al. (2016), Xinhua (2015), Flood list (2015)

November 4, 2015

227 mm

12 h

N/A

N/A

Zevenbergen et al. (2016)