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M2 PRESSWIRE-September 5, 2019-: OYO, MHIR and Incubit Develops an AI Model Predicting Possible Mudflows from Topographic Map

The project, comprising a $21.8 million loan and a $16.8 million grant from the Asian Development Fund, will focus on the Ferghana Valley in the southwestern part of the country and the Chui River Basin in the north, both of which are vulnerable to flooding, mudflows, and drought exacerbated by climate change.

It was reported that the canal was not intended for commercial purposes and its construction was aimed at preventing mudflows.

The agency warned villagers living along river channels near the volcano's slopes to be on alert for lahar and mudflows that could be triggered by heavy rainfall, especially after the Bicol region was affected by successive storms.

Weather-related disasters such as floods, landslides, mudflows, frosts, droughts, high winds, and avalanches are frequent across these countries, and generally concentrated in mountainous regions.

ISLAMABAD:The significant monsoon rains have caused mudflows and landslides in Gilgit Baltistan rendering major thoroughfares blocked during the last 24 hours.

On July 3, successive heavy downpours in southwestern Japan resulted in widespread, devastating floods and mudflows.

Heavy rains over an erupting volcano in the eastern Philippines last weekend threatened to trigger deadly mudflows as debris and sediment deposited on its slopes are washed out, officials warned.

Tens of thousands of residents near an erupting volcano in the eastern Philippines were on high alert yesterday as mudflows cascaded down its slopes into a river near villages at the foot of the mountain.

Alternate routes were identified to prevent isolation of municipalities highly vulnerable to ash plume and volcanic mudflows known as lahar, the DPWH said in its advisory.