India is one of the top ten countries by cumulative disaster losses, with the most intense recorded event being the 1999 Odisha super cyclone. Twenty years later, there is still no comprehensive documentation of the losses caused by the cyclone at the micro-level, nor an understanding of long...
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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The death toll from cyclone Fani on Sunday reached 34 in the Indian state of Odisha, two days after the storm wreaked massive destruction in Eastern India. India: Death Toll from Cyclone Fani Hits 34 An oncoming natural disaster was fairly averted as the fury of cycl...
Villagers move to safer places amidst gusty winds ahead of the landfall of cyclone Fani on the outskirts of Puri, in the Indian state of Odisha, Friday, May 3, 2019. Indian authorities have evacuated hundreds of thousands of people along the country's eastern coast ahead of a cyclone moving...
"A woman died after a tree fell on her at Bashirhat in north 24 parganas. Another man was killed in east Midnapore's Nandigram," a media report said. In adjacent Odisha state, the cyclone Bulbul brought heavy rains and winds with speed ranging between 70-80 km per hour. Reports said...
Winds in Puri, Odisha are blowing at a maximum speed of 240-245 km per hour and heavy to very heavy rains are continuing over the Odisha coast. After landfall, the impact is likely to reduce and it is likely to move towards West Bengal coast. ...
The 1976 storm originated in Odisha, moved west-northwest into the Arabian Sea, circled and eventually weakened near Oman's coast. Similarly, the 1944 storm intensified after reaching the Arabian Sea before losing strength. In 1964, a brief storm developed off the South...
Odisha’s chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, appealed to people in shelters to wear double masks and maintain social distancing. “We have to face both the challenges simultaneously,” Patnaik said. Thousands of emergency personnel have been deployed to help with evacuations and rescue operations, said...
the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha are now bracing for the impact of Cyclone Amphan. Amphan is a superstorm that has formed over the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Meteorological Department has said that it is the most intense cyclone seen in the region since 1999. The super cycl...