Cyclone Tracy indeed caused a great devastation to the city of Darwin.Bruce Stannard of The Age magazine stated that Cyclone Tracy was a ‘disaster of the first magnitude…without parallel in Australia’s history.’’ it caused great destructions on both the environment and the people which link to one another. First of all‚ the cyclone caused a great destruction on the buildings where 70% of Darwin’s homes were destroyed or suffered from severe damage. 41‚000 out of 47‚000 people were homeless.
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2008 Cyclone Nargis of Myanmar Cyclone Nargis was a strong typical storm that caused the worst ever natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar. The cyclone hit the country on May2‚ 2008‚ causing havoc and at least 146000 fatalities with thousands more people still missing. The Labutta Township alone was reported to have 80000 dead‚ with about 10000 more deaths in Bogale. Damage was estimated at over US 10 billion. Which made it the most catastrophic cyclone in Myanmar. Nargis
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Cyclones in Mauritius Cyclones in Mauritius While the south-east trade wind blows the whole year through and actually is a harmless and even pleasant event‚ in case of the cyclones the situation gets serious. They are also winds that are originated by the strong sun radiation‚ but they are tremendously more fiercely and destructive. Cyclones are originated during the months January up to March‚ when the sun is already returning from the southern tropic in direction to the northern tropic; While
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Cyclonic Storm Nilam (IMD designation: BOB 02‚ JTWC designation: 02B‚ also known as Cyclone Nilam) was the worst tropical cyclone to directly affect south India since Cyclone Jal in 2010. Originating from an area of low pressure over the Bay of Bengal on October 28‚ the system began as a weak depression 550 km (340 mi) east-northeast of Trincomalee‚ Sri Lanka. Over the following few days‚ the depression gradually intensified into a deep depression‚ and subsequently a Cyclonic Storm by October 30
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SOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTIVE WORK AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CLASSES IX-X Emphasis should be placed on work practice and classroom discussions in these classes. A component of Contemporary Studies may be correlated with SUPW. Work practice will include one main craft or equivalent service and at least one subsidiary craft or equivalent service. MAIN CRAFTS/SERVICES (i) Health and Hygiene Growing medical plants; eradication communicable diseases; paramedical service. (ii) Food Agro-industries; kitchen
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Tropical Deforestation Medicine‚ homes‚ lives‚ and more demolished on a daily basis due to tropical deforestation. Unfortunately‚ tropical forests are being demolished everyday all over the world. “The clearing of tropical forests across the Earth has been occurring on a large scale basis for many centuries.” This once widely known issue has been quite in the North-Eastern United States. The issue was once broadcasted over the television‚ magazines‚ newspaper‚ and all sources of media
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* TROPICAL GRASSLANDS (SAVANNAH) This is grassland with scattered individual trees. They cover almost half the surface of Africa*(about % million sq. miles generally central Africa) and large areas of Australia‚ South America and India. REGIONAL CLIMATE The climate is warm and hot Rainfall is about 50.8 to 127 cm annually. SOIL ORDERS The soil is porous with rapid water drainage. Contains a thin layer of humus. DORMINANT GROWTH FORMS Rhodes grass and red oat grass‚ in East Africa Star grasses and
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Discussion Based on the data at Tables 4c.2 and 4c.3‚ it is evident that the tropical rainforest has higher species richness than the tropical grassland ecosystem. However‚ when based in the indices on Diversity‚ Similarity and Dominance in the tropical grassland and tropical rainforest data‚ the Simpson Indices favor the data for the tropical rainforest as more diverse than the tropical grassland. The Simpson Indices‚ as defined in Cuevas et. al (2012)‚ is based on dominance and as the number of
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Introduction: Bangladesh is prone to a variety of natural hazards. It has witnessed the havoc of some of the worst natural disasters of the world due to tropical cyclones and storm surges. Floods and local seasonal storms are annual events which cause loss of lives and damage to housing‚ agriculture and economy. The country is also exposed to the risk of earthquakes. There are other natural hazard concerns such as coastal erosion and sea level rise due to global warming‚ which have been in the limelight
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the 1970 Cyclone (Nov 12-13) with cyclonic surge of 3.05m to 10.6m high with wind speed of 222 km/h occurred during high tide causing most appalling natural disaster claiming 0.3 million human lives. On the 29 April 1991 a devastating cyclone hit Chittagong‚ Cox’s Bazar‚ Barisal‚ Noakhali‚ Patuakhali‚ Barguna and Khulna along with tidal bore of 5-8m high with wind speed of 240 km/h which killed 150‚000 human beings‚ 70‚000 cattlehead‚ and the total loss was about Tk 60 billion. [HS Mozaddad Faruque]
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