Despite the fact that humans have made tremendous
progress in various aspects in terms of technological
growths, yet there is one area where they
have not been able to surpass and that is
the supremacy of Nature.
Time and again, we have seen and read about
many natural disasters occurring in the country
and outside which have caused a great havoc
in the society, killing thousands of people
and destroying properties.
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Today We bring the 5 most dangerous natural
disasters occurring in the history of India
we wish would have never happened.
5 Tsunami of 2004
With the magnitude of 9.1–9.3, it was the
third largest earthquake of the world recorded
ever.
Almost 227,898 people died.
The earthquake had the longest duration of
faulting ever observed between 8.3 and 10 minutes.
According to experts, the earthquake that
caused tsunami was so powerful that its impact
can be equated to the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type
atomic bombs.
The huge waves of this deadliest tsunami killed
lakhs of people in Part of South India, Sri
Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
The earthquake was caused when the Indian
Plate was subducted by the Burma Plate and
triggered a series of devastating tsunamis
along the coasts of most landmasses bordering
the Indian Ocean.
4 Calcutta Cyclone of 1737
Early in the morning on October 11, 1737,
a large cyclone made landfall inside the Ganges
River Delta, located just south of Calcutta,
West Bengal, India.
The cyclone caused a storm surge 10-13 m in
the Ganges with a reported 381 mm of rain
falling in a 6-hour period.
The storm tracked approximately 330 km inland
before dissipating.
Many people were killed, a large number of
ships, almost 20,000 docked on the harbor
were damaged.
Also referred as the Calcutta Cyclone, the
low-lying areas in the Calcutta region were
badly affected.
This cyclone killed 300,000 to 350,000 people
of the region and hence considered to be as
the worst calamity that time.
3 Coringa Cyclone of 1839
On Nov 25, 1839, India was affected by the
Coringa Cyclone in the harbor city of Coringa
in Andhra Pradesh.
It killed almost 3.2 lakh people.
According to statistics, at least 25 thousand
ships and vessels in the harbor city were
ruined by this monstrous storm.
One of the worst natural disasters in the
history of India, the cyclone struck the tiny
city Coringa in Godavari district in Andhra
Pradesh.
It destroyed the entire city.
It was indeed one of the biggest disasters
that shook India.
2 The Great Madras Famine of 1876
The Great Madras Famine of 1876-78.
The result of crop failure, this famine starved
to death some 55 lakh Indians.
And this is the British estimate.
It began in what is today Tamil Nadu, before
spreading to Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Maharashtra, and parts of Uttar Pradesh.
During this famine, the British continued
to export record tons of food from India,
tried to spend as little as possible and perhaps
most disturbingly Lord Lytton the Viceroy
held a grand banquet for 60,000 people, in
honor of Queen Victoria's coronation
1 Bengal Famine of 1770 and 1943
A massive famine affected the pre-independence
state of Bengal and some parts of Odisha and
Bihar twice.
In The Year 1770 and extended for almost 3
years till 1773 and then again in 1943.
One of the deadliest natural disasters to
have hit India ever, the famine led to the
death of 1 crore people due to hunger, thirst,
and disease, reducing the population to 30
million in Bengal.
Bengal province of pre-partition British India
was affected by another famine in 1943 in
which around 4 million people died due to
starvation, malnutrition, and disease.
More than half of the population of the region
died from diseases as an after effect of the
famine.
So, these were the 5 most dangerous natural
disasters occurring in the history of India
we wish would have never happened.
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