Dissasters in India

There place , impact and year (in broad view)

1.Uttarakhand disaster

• Year : 22 jun 2013• Major reason:Heavy rainfall , cloudburst

and land slid.• Impact : More than 1 lakh people were

suffered from this. Approx to thousand people lost their lives.

• Econonomic loss: several bridge, transport systems damaged and approx 12K crore loss of tourism.

Uttarakhand

2. Indian Ocean Tsunami

• Year : 2004• Major reason: Earthquake

near the Indonesian Island of Sumatra

• Impact : An estimated 10,136 people died, 5,832 reported missing and lakhs of people were rendered homeless according to the official reports given by Indian government.

tsunami

3. Latur Earthquake

• Year : 1993 , Maharashtra• Major reason: An earthquake measuring 7.4

on Richter scale struck at 4 a.m• Impact :Approximately 20,000 people died

and around 30,000 were injured. About 52 villages were totally destroyed.

4. Gujarat Earthquake

• Year : 2001,Bhuj in Gujrat• Major reason: An earthquake with a magnitude

of 7.7 on Richter scale hit at about 08:46 a.m. • Impact : Around 20,000 people were killed,

1,67,000 injured and about 6,00,000 people were left homeless. The city of Bhuj that lied only 20 km from the epicenter was totally devastated.

• Econonomic loss: Total damages were assessed to be in excess of $5.5 billion

Bhuj Earthquake

5.Bengal Famine of 1943

• Year : 1943• Major reason: A catastrophic famine struck the

undivided Bengal.• Impact : Death Approximately 15 lakhs. Highest

mortality was not in the poor groups of the society, but among artisans and small traders whose income vanished when people spent all their savings on food and did not employ artisans. A series of crop failure caused localized famines in 1940-41.

Bangal femine

6. Uttarkashi earthquake

• Year : 20 October 1991 in the Uttarkashi• Major reason: The earthquake, which

measured 6.8 M.

• Impact : 1294 villages and more than 3,00,000 people were affected with the quake and 42,400 houses were damaged.

Uttarkashi earthquake

7. Odisa cyclone

• Year:October 29-30, 1999. • Imapct: These cyclones left a trail of death and

destruction and devastated 14 districts in the State. About 8960 persons lost their lives, 4,50,000 cattle perished, about 2 million houses were damaged, about 90 million trees were uprooted and 1.8 million ha. paddy and 33,000 ha. non-paddy cultivated land was affected. Infrastructure facilities were severely damaged.

• Cause: special nature of the coastline, the shallow coastal ocean topography and the characteristics of tide in the North Bay of Bengal region.

Odisa cyclone

8. Barmer Floods in Rajasthan in 2006

• Year : 2006• Major reason: About 723mm in just seven days that

caused a major flood across Barmer district in Rajasthan, especially the northern and western regions .

• Impact : The first point to note is that even after the rain stopped, the water did not drain out, because of an impermeable layer of sub-surface gypsum. This raises new problems related to health and environment. Already, more than 45 people have died of malaria and more than 5,000 have contracted the disease

Barmer flood

9. Ladakh floods

• Year : 2010• Major reason: cloudburst and heavy overnight rains

triggered flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows.• Impact : 200 people were reported missing in the

initial aftermath of the storm, and thousands more were rendered homeless after the flooding caused extensive damage to property and infrastructure. Overall, 9000 people were directly affected by the event. At least 255 people are reported to have died.

Ladakh flood

10. Bihar flood

• Year : 2008• Major reason: heavy monsoon rains and poor

maintenance caused a breach in the Kosi embankment. Water passed through the breach at an estimated 129,800 m³/s, inundating hundreds of villages in northern Bihar

• Impact : The flood killed 250 people and forced nearly 3 million people affected in Bihar. More than 300,000 houses were destroyed and 840,000 acres of crops were damaged. Villagers in Bihar ate raw rice and flour mixed with polluted water. Hunger and disease were widespread.

Bihar flood

11. Bhopal Gas Tragedy

• Year : 1984• Impact : Run away process in storage Tank of

chemical factory which Had a tremendous• effect: injured people and their posterit.• Major reason : Management-failure(Methyl

isocayanate) • Fatalities: 8000 / 200000 , 558,125 injuries.

Bhopal gas tragedy

12 Kashmir earthquake

• Year: October 8, 2005 • Fatalities: 80,000 • Magnitude:7.5• Impact: Lot of life loss and economic loss took

place in that disaster

Kashmir Earthquake

History of drought in India• PERIOD DROUGHT YEARS NUMBER OF DROUGHT• 1801-1830 1801, 1804, 1806, 1812, 1819, 1825 6• 1831-1860 1832, 1833, 1837, 1853, 1860 5• 1861-1890 1862, 1866, 1868, 1873, 1877, 1883 6• 1891-1920 1891, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1904, 190510 1907, 1911, 1918, 1920 • 1921-1950 1939, 1941 2• 1951-1980 1951, 1965, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1974 1979 7• 1981-2010 1982, 1987, 2002, 2009 4

Impact of flood in India

• Years Avg area Avg population Avg cattle affected Affected loss (in ‘000 hectares) (in million) (in ‘000)1953 -57 6664 16.76 33 1958 -62 6448 11.714 31.8 1963 -67 4342 12.636 6.4 1968 -72 7832 34.53 98 1973 -77 9606 44.956 186.2 1978 -82 9588 46.518 249 1983 -87 9162 55.80 105.2 1988 -92 8531 37.42 96 1993 -97 6821.4 33.66 73 1998 -2002 5382.5 26.89 59.03 2003 -06 2867.5 23.864 34.14

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