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2. • WHAT IS A DISASTER?
• NATURAL DISASTERS OF INDIA
1997-2010
• SAVING OURSELVES FROM DISASTERS
• CONCLUSION

3. A SERIOUS DISRUPTION IN THE
FUNCTIONING OF THE SOCIETY DUE
TO A HAZARD WHICH CAUSES A HUGE
DAMAGE TO LIFE,PROPERTY AND
LIVLIHOOD AND REQUIRES EXTERNAL
SUPPORT IS TERMED A

4. ►EARTHQUAKES
►CYCLONES
►TSUNAMI
► FLOOD
►LANDSLIDE
►STORM
►FOREST FIRES
►DROUGHT

5. EARTHQUAKE IS THE SUDDEN SHAKING
OF EARTH’S CRUST.THE TECTONIC
PLATES FLOATING OVER THE MANTLE
OFTEN COLLIDE WITH EACH OTHER
THUS INCREASING THE PRESSURE. THIS
PRESSURE IS RELEASED RESULTIG IN A
FAULT. THE SEISMIC ZONES OF INDIA IS
SHOWN BELOW

6. THE WORD CYCLONE IS DERIVED FROM
THE GREEK WORD CYCLOS MEANING
COILS OF A SNAKE. CYCLONES IS A
HUGE REVOLVING STORMS CAUSED BY
WINDS BLOWING AROUND A CENTRAL
AREA OF LOW ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE.
IT IS A SWIRLING ATMOSPHERIC
DISTURBANCE ACCOMPANIED BY
POWERFUL WINDS BLOWING IN A
CLOCKWISE DIRECTION IN THE
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AND ANTI
CLOCKWISE DIRECTION IN THE
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE .

7. TSUNAMIS ARE ENORMOUS WAVES
WHICH ARE USUALLY FORMED
WHEN THE SEA BED IS DISTURBED
BY AN UNDER EARTHQUAKE OR
BY A LANDSLIDE. TSUNAMIS
TRASH EVERYTHING IN THEIR
PATH. THEY ARE VERY
DANGEROUS.

8. A FLOOD OCCURS WHEN WATER
RISES BEYOND ITS NORMAL
COURSE. THE MAIN CAUSE OF
FLOOD IS HEAVY RAIN. FLOOD IS
VERY COMMON IN LOW LYING
AREAS AND RIVER BEDS .

9. A LANDSLIDE IS A GEOLOGICAL
PHENOMENON WHICH INCLUDES
A WIDE RANGE OF GROUND
MOVEMENTSUCH AS ROCK FALLS,
DEEP FAILURE OF SLOPES AND
SHALLOW DEBRIS FLOWS,WHICH
CAN OCCUR ON SHORE , OFF
SHORE AND COASTAL
ENVIRONMENTS .

10. • The 1997 Jabalpur earthquake occurred on May 22,
1997 in Jabalpur District in the Indian state of
Madhya Pradesh. The epicenter of the earthquake was
located at 23.18°N 80.02°E near Koshamghat
village. According to geologist Dr V. Subramanyan, the quake
was caused due to the presence of Narmada Fault.

11. On 11 and 17 August 1998 at village Malpa in
Uttarkhand state about 380 people were killed when
massive landslides washed away the entire village. The
dead included 60 Hindu pilgrims on their way to
Kailash Mansarovar lake in Tibet.The noted Indian
dancer Protima Bedi was one of the pilgrims who died
in the landslide.

12. The 1999 Orissa cyclone , also known as Cyclone 05B, and Paradip
cyclone, was the deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone .The storm
made landfall just weeks after a Category 4 storm hit the same general
area.
A tropical depression formed over the Malay Peninsula on October 25. It
moved to the northwest and became a tropical storm on October 26. It
continued to strengthen into a cyclone on the 27th. On October 28, it
became a severe cyclone with a peak of 160 mph (260 km/h) winds. It
hit India the next day as a 155 mph (250 km/h) cyclone. It caused the
deaths of 15,000 people, and heavy to extreme damage in its path of
destruction.

13. 2000 Mumbai landslide is the landslide in
Ghatkopar suburbs of Mumbai in July 2000 that
killed 67 people and injured many. The landslide was
the result of land erosion following heavy rains.

14. The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26,
2001,at 08:46 AM. The epicentre was Bhuj (23.6° N 69.8°
E) Gujarat, India. With a magnitude of between 7.6 and 8.1
on the Richter scale, the quake killed around 20,000 people ,
injured another 167,000 and destroyed nearly 400,000
homes.This was an intraplate earthquake, one that occurred
at a distance from any plate boundary where plate tectonics
create most earthquakes, so the area was not well prepared.

15. Severe Cyclonic Storm Onil was the first tropical cyclone to be
named in the northern Indian Ocean. Forming out of an area of
convection several hundred kilometres southwest of India on October 1,
Cyclone Onil quickly attained its peak intensity on October 2 with
winds of 100 km/h and a barometric pressure of 990 mbar . However,
dry air quickly entered the system, causing it to rapidly weaken to a
depression just off the coast of Gujarat, India. Over the following
several days, the system took a slow, erratic track towards the south-
southeast. After turning northeastward, the system made landfall near
Porbandar on October 10 and dissipated shortly thereafter.

16. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake
that occurred at 00:58:53 on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast
of Sumatra, Indonesia...The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a
series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the
Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating
coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high.It was one of the
deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest hit, followed
by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is
the third largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the
longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the
entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.4 inches) and triggered other earthquakes
as far away as Alaska.Its hypocenter was between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia.

17. The 2005 Kashmir Earthquake was a major earthquake centered
in Pakistan-administered Kashmir known as Azad Kashmir, near the
city of Muzaffarabad, affectingGilgit-Baltistan and Khyber-
Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It occurred at 08:52:37
Pakistan Standard Time (03:52:37 UTC) on 8 October 2005. It
registered amoment magnitude of 7.6 making it similar in size to the
1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the
2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes. The
death toll was 75,000. The tremors were felt in Tajikistan, western
China.

18. The 2005 Gujarat Flood was a bout of major flooding affecting
many parts of Gujarat and was caused by heavy monsoon rains in June
2005. Many of the southern districts of Gujarat were on flood alert.
About 15,000 people were evacuated from the coastal regions. On June
30, the state was put on high alert and the army was asked to stand-by
for rescue and relief operations. Most of the airports and trains in the
state were not operational.As of July 2 the death toll was about 123
people state wide and more than 250,000 evacuated.The relief package
is estimated to be over Rs. 8000 crore.

19. On 6 April 2006, an earthquake was reported at
11:29:16 p.m. IST
in Gujarat, India's Kutch and Saurashtra region.
Intensity of the earthquake was measured at 5.5 on
the Richter Scale.The location of the earthquake was
measured at 23.281°N, 70.422°E at the depth of
10KM.

20. The 2008 Bihar flood, which started in the month of
August 2007, It is believed to be the worst flood in Bihar in
last 30 years. By August 3, the estimated death toll was 41
people, and 48 schoolgirls were marooned in a school in the
Darbhanga district.By August 8, an estimated 10 million
people in Bihar had been affected by flooding.Till August 11,
flood deaths were still occurring.

21. The 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake was an
earthquake that occurred on August 11, 2009, at 01:25 am
local time in the Andaman Islands of India.The earthquake
magnitude was recorded as 7.5 Mw, and was the strongest
earthquake in the region since the 2004 earthquake. The
epicenter was 260 km north of Port Blair, and tremors were
felt in south-east India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and
Thailand. No casualties or injuries were reported, although
there were complaints about minor damages to buildings.

22. Cyclone Aila was the second tropical cyclone to form within the
Northern Indian Ocean during 2009. The disturbance that was to
become Cyclone Aila formed on 21 May 2009 about 950 kilometres (590
mi) to the south of Kolkata, inIndia. Over the next couple of days the
disturbance slowly developed before a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert
was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center early on 23 May 2009
and being designated as a depression by RSMC New Delhi. As of 27
May 2009, 330 people have been killed by Aila and at least 8,208 more
are missing, while about 1 million are homeless.

23. Cyclonic Storm Phyan developed as a tropical disturbance to the southwest of
Colombo in Sri Lanka on November 4, 2009. Over the next couple of days the
disturbance gradually developed before weakening as it made landfall on Southern
India on November 7. After the disturbance emerged into the Arabian Sea it rapidly
became more marked with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reporting
early on November 9 that the disturbance had intensified into a Depression and
designated it as Depression ARB 03 whilst the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
(JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Later that day the JTWC
designated the system as Cyclone 04A. During the next day as the Depression turned
towards the northeast the IMD reported that it had intensified into a Cyclonic Storm
and named it as Phyan.

24. The 2010 Leh floods occurred on August 6, 2010
in Leh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. At
least 193 people died, and thousands were injured as
heavy rains overnight caused flash floods and
mudslides.Thousands more were rendered homeless
according to government officials.200 people were
still missing following the floods.

25. Cyclonic Storm Laila is the first cyclonic storm to affect
southeastern India in May since the
1990 Andhra Pradesh cyclone. The first tropical cyclone of
the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Laila developed
on May 17 in the Bay of Bengal from a persistent area of
convection. Strengthening as it tracked northwestward, it
became a severe cyclonic storm on May 19. The next day,
Laila made landfall in Andhra Pradesh, and it later
dissipated over land. It caused flooding and damage along its
path. Laila is an Urdu name, meaning Night. it is the worst
storm to hit Andhra Pradesh over the last 14 years.

26. THE PROCESS INVOLVING ACTIVITIES THAT HELP US TO
FACE DISASTERS EFFECTIVELY IS KNOWN AS
DISASTERS IS KNOWN AS DISASTER MANAGEMENT.WE
SHOULD BE TRAINED TO FACE DISASTERS IN OUR
SCHOOLS,COMMUNITIES ETC TO REDUCE TH
DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY DISASTERS. THE FIRST
RESPONDERS IN THE DISASTER PRONE AREA ARE
MORE FOREWARNED THAN US TO FACE DISASTERS.

27. NATURAL DISASTERS ARE NATURAL.
THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED BUT THE
VULNERABILITY CAN BE REDUCED. AS
INDIA IS A DISASTER PRONE
AREA,EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD
KNOW HOW TO PROTECT
THEMSELVES FROM DISASTERS.