Live: Cyclone Phailin crossing Odisha coast near Gopalpur.
Disaster 2013: Cyclone Phailin’s Impacts on Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India India’s strongest storm in more than a decade left a trail of destruction along the country’s east coast over the weekend. In advance of the cyclone, close to a million people were evacuated, saving many lives. posted on October 13, 2013 at 7:39pm EDT India got it right this time; advanced warnings and.
Yet despite being similar in size, speed and ferocity to 1999’s Cyclone Paradip, which killed nearly 10,000 people throughout Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states, the death toll from Cyclone Phailin has been startlingly different. Authorities have reported 38 deaths from Cyclone Phailin. Although this number of deaths is a tragedy, and the figure is likely to rise, it is extraordinarily low in.
Ganjam, Odisha: Sitting next to what was once a verdant banana plantation, now flattened by cyclone Phailin, N. Sriramulu Reddy was despondent. Not only did the storm ravage Ganjam district, which.
Case study: Phailin cyclone india2013. INDIA'S 2nd BIGGEST CYCLONE EVER- PHAILIN!! Phailin was the second-strongest cyclone ever to make landfall in India, behind the 1999 Orissa cyclone. The system was first noted as a tropical depression on October 4, 2013 within the Gulf of Thailand, to the west of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Over the next few days, it moved westwards within an area of low to.
Their efficient deployment of safety personnel and safety units has resulted in a much better handling of Phailin and Hudhud cyclones that threatened to destroy Odisha in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Phailin cyclone killed 21 people and caused 45 fatalities in total, while Hudhud resulted in 124 fatalities. Loss of human lives is certainly a loss no matter how less. However, the astounding low.
New Delhi: Cyclone Phailin reached the Odisha coast on Saturday evening, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands and disrupting rail and air services in the state and in Andhra Pradesh.
In 1999, Odisha, India was struck by a super cyclone featuring an unprecedented storm surge and torrential rainfall that resulted in widespread devastation and a substantial loss of life. Fourteen years later, the same area was hit by Cyclone Phailin, which despite its severity, claimed relatively few lives. This essay examines the reasons for the starkly different death tolls and considers.