The History of Bangladesh's worst Natural Disasters

     Bangladesh is a victim to a variety of natural hazards. It has witnessed the devastation 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 and possibly tsunami too. There are other natural hazard concerns such as coastal erosion and sea level rise due to global warming, which also need to be delivered on a long term basis.Here some natural disasters that has happened throughout history.
      The 1997 Chittagong Earthquake or the 1997 Bandarban Earthquake.It ocurred on November 21,1997 in the Bangladesh India Myanmar border region. It had a magnitude of 6.1. The epicenter was located in southern Mizoram, India.While no fatalities were reported in Mizoram, 23 people were killed when a 5-storey building collapsed in hittaging, Bangladesh.It destroyed 50-100 houses and there was from 200-1000 people injured.
      Floods.The 1998 food is one of the most destructive flood in modern history, where about 2/3 of Bangladesh was covered by water.The main causes of the flood was the unsually high monsoon rains, melting snow from the Himalayas.These increased the amount o surface water there was and increasedd te volume of water in two main rivers. The Ganges and the Brahmuuputra both had more than the normal amount of water that they could carry and so were overflowing and flooding. The water swallowed 300,000 house. 1,000 people were killed by drowning or disease like typhoid and cholera from contaminated water.The agriculture had a severe blow with the loss of 135,00 cattle and the damaging of 700,000 hectares of crop land.30 million people were made homeless,there comes poverty, 50 square kilometers of land destroyed.
     The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone was among the deadliest tropical cyclones on record. On the night of April 29th, a powerful cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 250 km/h.The storm forced 20 ft. storm surge inland over a wide area, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
     This are three of the many natural hazards that have affected Bangladesh throughout history. These natural disasters have lead to many homeless people and to a great amount of poverty.Mainly the floods are the major caused of Bangladesh's current state.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html
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