The researchers compiled a timeline of floods on the river from the past 12,000 years using historical records and data from river sediments. They found that flooding was rare between 12,000 and ...

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 Yellow River China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times.

Geologic Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend. A deluge that washed down the Yellow River nearly 4,000 years ago could be linked to the founding of China’s semi-mythical first dynasty.

The lower reaches of the Yellow River, a famous "suspended river" with a riverbed four to six meters higher than the surrounding fields, is symbolized as "a sword hanging above the heads of local ...

FLOOD SITE China’s Yellow River cuts through a gorge not far from where researchers say a landslide-created dam burst nearly 4,000 years ago and flooded the region.

As for the giant flood, however, researchers in China recently revealed that they’ve found evidence of a cataclysmic event along the Yellow River around 1200 B.C.

From that point on, every ten minutes the river was going up about an inch,” owner Jonathan Ordway tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish. In 2009, Gwinnett was supposed to have experienced a 100-year flood.