{"id":133242,"date":"2023-05-03T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=133242"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:32:20","slug":"consider-the-following-statements-regarding-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/consider-the-following-statements-regarding-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the following statements regarding \u2018Flash Floods\u2019:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Consider the following statements regarding \u2018Flash Floods\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Flash floods are sudden, rapid and high-volume floods that occur within a few hours of heavy rainfall or other triggering events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. They occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the capacity of the soil and drainage systems to absorb it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above is\/are not correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. 1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Ans<\/strong> :<\/strong> Neither 1 nor 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Flash floods are sudden and intense<\/strong> floods that occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the capacity of the soil and drainage systems to absorb it.<\/strong> Flash floods can cause widespread damage to infrastructure, crops, livestock, and human lives. These events have a high peak and typically occur within six hours of the rainfall. Hence, both statements are correct.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Consider the following statements regarding \u2018Flash Floods\u2019: Which of the statements given above is\/are not correct? Ans : Neither 1 nor 2 Explanation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":133217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5014],"tags":[1476],"class_list":["post-133242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-quiz-may-2023","tag-daily-current-affairs-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133244,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133242\/revisions\/133244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}