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Southeast Asia's traditional wet season, which typically spans October through March, is driven by the Australian-Indonesian monsoon (AIM) system. This meteorological phenomenon generates air currents flowing from Asia toward Australia, transporting significant moisture that results in substantial precipitation across the region.
Includes country profiles, disaster profiles and a disaster list. "Natural Hazard Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Particularly including articles on tsunamis, hurricanes and other storms. "Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System".
Sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912 Starvation in Bengal, 1943 Tenerife airport disaster, 1977 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984 Oil in Gulf of Mexico, 2010 Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011 Grounding of Costa Concordia, 2012 Moore Tornado, 2013
What would become known as the world's worst tsunami and remains the most devastating disaster to tear through Asia was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami: Indonesia Earthquake, Tsunami December 12 1993 9,748 1993 Latur earthquake: India Earthquake September 30 1994 3,063 Typhoon Fred: China, Taiwan Tropical cyclone August 21 1995 6,434 Great Hanshin earthquake: Japan Earthquake January 17 1996 1,077 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone: India Tropical cyclone November 4 ...
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (moment magnitude 9.1–9.3) [44] triggered a series of tsunamis on 26 December 2004 that devastated coastlines surrounding the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people (167,540 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami and one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
In 2012, there were 905 natural disasters worldwide, 93% of which were weather-related disasters. Overall costs were US$170 billion and insured losses $70 billion. 2012 was a moderate year. 45% were meteorological (storms), 36% were hydrological (floods), 12% were climatological (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires) and 7% were ...
Tsunami modelling executed by the University of Tokyo and Building Research Institute of Japan computed the tsunami to be 3.6 m (12 ft) in Suzu; 3 m (9.8 ft) in Noto; 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in Shika and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in Jōetsu, Niigata. [101] Flooding by the tsunami exceeded 4 m (13 ft) along the east and western part of the peninsula.