In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
Four persons, including two women, died and more than six were injured in a hailstorm yesterday. All bodies have been sent for postmortem. While the injured have been admitted to a hospital. The storm was so strong that people on road tried to protect themselves by clinging to the wall. …
New delhi : The fierce winds on Sunday afternoon hit some areas of Central Delhi including Rashtrapati Bhawan, Teen Murti, Rajaji Marg, Talkatora, Shanker Road and Pusa Institute harder than the rest of the city. More than 100 trees were either broken or uprooted in these areas. The areas probably …
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by a typhoon in the northern Philippines has more than doubled to 36, with 12 people still missing, the government said on Sunday. Typhoon Chan-Hom, the fifth to hit the country this year, slammed into the northern Philippines on Friday and destroyed …
The storm that lashed different parts of Malda district yesterday has destroyed mango worth over Rs 15 crore, spoiling completely a season that had already been hit by rainless months.
Chikkaballapur, DH News Service: Aruru, Chikkapailagurki, Pillagundahalli, Shettigere and surrounding villages are the worst hit as grapes, paddy, vegetables and other crops were damaged due to heavy rain and hailstorm. A sudden hailstorm and thundershowers on Sundaynight wrecked havoc in many villages in Chikkaballapur taluk, causing damage to the assets …
Rainstorm on Friday afternoon wrecked havoc in Arahalli village at Kolar taluk, causing damage of property to the tune of Rs 15 lakh. Several houses, sericulture sheds and trees were damaged following heavy rains with storm that lashed the village for nearly three hours. Roofs of nearly seven to eight …
Chikkaballapur: The farmers in Chikkaballapur taluk are facing crop damages to the tune of crores of rupees, due to hailstorm for the last two days. Several vineyards and vegetables have been completely destroyed in the taluk. The incident came to light a little later, since the taluk was under the …
Bangladesh authorities reopened ports on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people headed home after a cyclonic storm crossed the coast causing less damage than feared, officials said. The storm, with winds of up to 120 kph (75mph), swept over at least a dozen coastal districts and several offshore islands. …
Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred villages to test the impact of mangroves on human deaths during …
Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night. The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night. The cyclone moving slightly northeastwards started pounding on offshore islands from 8:00pm stretching from …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
The National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi, and the Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, today issued a caution stating that a cyclonic storm could hit coastal parts of the state in the next 48 hours. The cyclonic trough, named Bijli, formed over the west central part of the Bay of Bengal, …
A cyclonic storm codenamed 'Bijli' formed over the west-central and adjoining east-central Bay and moved slightly northwards on Thursday evening, packing a wind speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour. A latest special bulletin of the Met Office said it was centered about 735 km southwest of Chittagong Port, …
- Bangladesh advised ports to hoist cautionary signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas as a tropical storm brewed in the Bay of Bengal, the meteorological department said on Wednesday. The storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) was 1,135 km …
Alipurduar: A hailstorm accompanied by rain flattened tea bushes and damaged property in four tea gardens of the Alipurduar subdivision last night. The calamity hit the Tasati, Mujnai Subhasini and Ethelbari tea estates around 10.15pm and left a trail of devastation in just 15 minutes. The worst-hit was the Tasati …
Unfortunately this poor country is probably the most disaster prone in the world. Rapid growth in population and a slow rate of growth of the economy have forced a substantial part of the ever increasing population to settle in areas too risky for human habitation. A large number of new …
Light to moderate rain accompanied by hailstorm at some places in Punjab has devastated wheat and other crops in about 50-60 villages. Hailstorm has almost wiped out wheat and other crops in about 23 villages, 17 villages of Fatehgarh Sahib and six of Patiala district. Wheat crop has been devastated …
AHMEDABAD : Mercury levels in the city have shot up with temperatures going two degrees above normal. Weatherman warns that there may be more dust storms this week. The last such storm hit the city in March and claimed 52 trees. Director in-charge, Indian Meteorological Department, Ahmedabad, Kamaljit Ray says, …
