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(7899) Catastrophic flood
1 - A flood due to meteorological conditions of exceptional rarity, and due either to catastrophical rainfall spread over a period considerably longer than the time of concentration for the area, or to violent rain of the cloud burst type. 2 - Disaster caused by an extreme flood, especially after the failure of dikes or dams .

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