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The 1964 Rameswaram cyclone (also known as the Dhanushkodi cyclone) was regarded as one of the most powerful storms to ever strike India on record. [1] The system was first identified as an area of low pressure over the Andaman Sea on December 15. Following interaction with a tropical wave, it began to develop and became a depression by ...
Dhanushkodi is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. [1] It is south-east of Pamban and is about 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The town was destroyed during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone and remains uninhabited in the aftermath. Although devoid of inhabitants ...
Dhanushkodi railway station is an abandoned railway station in Tamil Nadu, India. It was abandoned during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the two branch lines gets diverted from Pamban Junction one is Pamban Junction– Rameswaram Branch line and the other is Pamban Junction–Dhanushkodi Branch line .
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Extreme rainfall in southeast Africa has become heavier and more likely to occur during cyclones because The post Study: Africa cyclones exacerbated by climate change ...
The Horn of Africa has experienced the effects of 14 North Indian Ocean tropical cyclones since 1984, resulting in at least 108 fatalities. All but two of the storms struck Somalia from the east. The other two – a storm in May 1984 and Cyclone Sagar in May 2018 – traversed the Gulf of Aden and struck northern Somalia.
The cyclone and the floods disrupted much of the economic progress Mozambique had made in the 1990s since the end of its civil war. [17] Eline also killed 21 people in South Africa, where damage reached at least US$300 million. [13] [18] In Zimbabwe, Eline washed away transportation infrastructure and killed 12 people.
UN weather agency says Tropical Cyclone Freddy that hit eastern Africa last year was longest ever 07/02/2024 10:04 -0400 GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Tuesday that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year , was confirmed to be the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded at 36 days.
More recently, it has led responses to disease outbreaks like Ebola in West Africa, which killed at least 11,000 of the more than 28,000 people infected from 2014-2016.