The Severe Cyclonic Storm Lehar turned into a ‘Deep depression’ and crossed coast near Machilipatnam at around 2 p.m. on Thursday. There was no human loss and no significant damage to standing crops. Over 9,000 people, mostly from fishermen community, were evacuated while another 8,000 in the seven coastal mandals …
The Severe Cyclonic Storm Lehar turned into a ‘Deep depression’ and crossed coast near Machilipatnam at around 2 p.m. on Thursday. There was no human loss and no significant damage to standing crops. Over 9,000 people, mostly from fishermen community, were evacuated while another 8,000 in the seven coastal mandals …
Andhra Pradesh heaved a sigh of relief as ‘Lehar’, which was initially categorised as a severe cyclonic storm, petered out into a deep depression today and made landfall near Machilipatnam in the evening. Under its influence, very heavy rains lashed the south coastal districts of Guntur, East Godavari, West Godavari …
Trees were uprooted disrupting traffic, communication and electricity towers were damaged as strong gales with speed reaching 100-110 kmph caused havoc in the coastal districts Cyclonic storm Helen Friday hit Andhra Pradesh coast near Machilipatnam, triggering heavy rains and strong gales, killing seven people and causing massive damage to the …
Yesterday’s cyclonic storm ‘HELEN’ over west central Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the early morning of today, the 21st November 2013 and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today near latitude 15.80N and longitude 83.40E about 240 km east-southeast of Machillipatnam, 350 km east-northeast …
Coastal towns of Machilipatnam, Surya Lanka, Kavali and Gudur in Andhra Pradesh are sensitive regions with high return levels of sea surge in case of cyclones or tidal waves in the Bay of Bengal. Sea scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, conducted studies to estimate the return …
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the project of four laning of Vijayawada-Machilipatnam section of National Highway (NH)-9 in Andhra Pradesh under the National Highway Development Programme phase IV-A. This project would be taken up on DBFOT (design, build, finance, operate and transfer) basis in BOT build, operate and …
In a bid to introduce greater transparency in the road sector, the transport ministry on Tuesday said it has fixed the monthly monitorable targets for road building and will bid out all projects beginning August through the e-tendering process.
A study has been carried out by comparing the extreme wind speeds estimated based on NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data for 100 years return period using Fischer Tippet-1 (commonly known as Gumbel) and Weibull distributions for three locations (off Goa, Visakhapatnam and Machilipatnam) in the north Indian Ocean. The wind dataset for …
