1. Dissasters in India
There place , impact and year
(in broad view)

2. 1.Uttarakhand disaster
• Year : 22 jun 2013
• Major reason:Heavy rainfall , cloudburst
and land slid.
• Impact : More than 1 lakh people were
suffered from this. Approx to thousand
people lost their lives.
• Econonomic loss: several bridge, transport
systems damaged and approx 12K crore
loss of tourism.

3. Uttarakhand

5. 2. Indian Ocean Tsunami
• Year : 2004
• Major reason:
Earthquake near the
Indonesian Island of
Sumatra
• Impact : An estimated
10,136 people died, 5,832
reported missing and
lakhs of people were
rendered homeless
according to the official
reports given by Indian
government.

6. tsunami

7. 3. Latur Earthquake
• Year : 1993 , Maharashtra
• Major reason: An earthquake measuring 7.4
on Richter scale struck at 4 a.m
• Impact :Approximately 20,000 people died
and around 30,000 were injured. About 52
villages were totally destroyed.

9. 4. Gujarat Earthquake
• Year : 2001,Bhuj in Gujrat
• Major reason: An earthquake with a magnitude
of 7.7 on Richter scale hit at about 08:46 a.m.
• Impact : Around 20,000 people were killed,
1,67,000 injured and about 6,00,000 people were
left homeless. The city of Bhuj that lied only 20
km from the epicenter was totally devastated.
• Econonomic loss: Total damages were assessed to
be in excess of $5.5 billion

10. Bhuj Earthquake

11. 5.Bengal Famine of 1943
• Year : 1943
• Major reason: A catastrophic famine struck the
undivided Bengal.
• Impact : Death Approximately 15 lakhs. Highest
mortality was not in the poor groups of the
society, but among artisans and small traders
whose income vanished when people spent all
their savings on food and did not employ
artisans. A series of crop failure caused localized
famines in 1940-41.

12. Bangal femine

13. 6. Uttarkashi earthquake
• Year : 20 October 1991 in the Uttarkashi
• Major reason: The earthquake, which
measured 6.8 M.
• Impact : 1294 villages and more than 3,00,000
people were affected with the quake and
42,400 houses were damaged.

14. Uttarkashi earthquake

15. 7. Odisa cyclone
• Year:October 29-30, 1999.
• Imapct: These cyclones left a trail of death and
destruction and devastated 14 districts in the State.
About 8960 persons lost their lives, 4,50,000 cattle
perished, about 2 million houses were damaged, about
90 million trees were uprooted and 1.8 million ha.
paddy and 33,000 ha. non-paddy cultivated land was
affected. Infrastructure facilities were severely
damaged.
• Cause: special nature of the coastline, the shallow
coastal ocean topography and the characteristics of
tide in the North Bay of Bengal region.

16. Odisa cyclone

17. 8. Barmer Floods in Rajasthan in 2006
• Year : 2006
• Major reason: About 723mm in just seven days that
caused a major flood across Barmer district in
Rajasthan, especially the northern and western
regions .
• Impact : The first point to note is that even after the
rain stopped, the water did not drain out, because of
an impermeable layer of sub-surface gypsum. This
raises new problems related to health and
environment. Already, more than 45 people have died
of malaria and more than 5,000 have contracted the
disease

18. Barmer flood

19. 9. Ladakh floods
• Year : 2010
• Major reason: cloudburst and heavy overnight
rains triggered flash floods, mudslides, and debris
flows.
• Impact : 200 people were reported missing in the
initial aftermath of the storm, and thousands
more were rendered homeless after the flooding
caused extensive damage to property and
infrastructure. Overall, 9000 people were directly
affected by the event. At least 255 people are
reported to have died.

20. Ladakh flood

21. 10. Bihar flood
• Year : 2008
• Major reason: heavy monsoon rains and poor
maintenance caused a breach in the Kosi embankment.
Water passed through the breach at an estimated
129,800 m³/s, inundating hundreds of villages in
northern Bihar
• Impact : The flood killed 250 people and forced nearly
3 million people affected in Bihar. More than 300,000
houses were destroyed and 840,000 acres of crops
were damaged. Villagers in Bihar ate raw rice and flour
mixed with polluted water. Hunger and disease were
widespread.

22. Bihar flood

23. 11. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
• Year : 1984
• Impact : Run away process in storage Tank of
chemical factory which Had a tremendous
• effect: injured people and their posterit.
• Major reason : Management-failure(Methyl
isocayanate)
• Fatalities: 8000 / 200000 , 558,125 injuries.

24. Bhopal gas tragedy

25. 12 Kashmir earthquake
• Year: October 8, 2005
• Fatalities: 80,000
• Magnitude:7.5
• Impact: Lot of life loss and economic loss took
place in that disaster

26. Kashmir Earthquake

28. History of drought in India
• PERIOD DROUGHT YEARS NUMBER OF
DROUGHT
• 1801-1830 1801, 1804, 1806, 1812, 1819, 1825 6
• 1831-1860 1832, 1833, 1837, 1853, 1860 5
• 1861-1890 1862, 1866, 1868, 1873, 1877, 1883 6
• 1891-1920 1891, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1904, 1905 10
1907, 1911, 1918, 1920
• 1921-1950 1939, 1941 2
• 1951-1980 1951, 1965, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1974
1979 7
• 1981-2010 1982, 1987, 2002, 2009 4

29. Impact of flood in India
• Years Avg area Avg population Avg cattle
affected Affected loss
(in ‘000 hectares) (in million) (in ‘000)
1953 -57 6664 16.76 33
1958 -62 6448 11.714 31.8
1963 -67 4342 12.636 6.4
1968 -72 7832 34.53 98
1973 -77 9606 44.956 186.2
1978 -82 9588 46.518 249
1983 -87 9162 55.80 105.2
1988 -92 8531 37.42 96
1993 -97 6821.4 33.66 73
1998 -2002 5382.5 26.89 59.03
2003 -06 2867.5 23.864 34.14

30. THE END
• THANKING YOU