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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 ...
December 22–23 – India – At about midnight, during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone, train 653 from Pamban was approaching its terminus, the Palk Strait port of Dhanushkodi, when the signals failed. The driver decided to proceed, but the train was hit by a storm surge.
23 December 1964: Pamban-Dhanushkodi Passenger; Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu: 200+ Storm surge due to a tropical cyclone: 20 November 2016: Indore–Patna Express; Near Pukhrayan, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh: 150 Derailment due to fractured rail 28 May 2010: Jnaneswari Express; A Goods train; Near Jhargram, West Bengal: 148+ Possible sabotage by Naxalites ...
After 21 December 1964, it moved westwards, almost in a straight line, at the rate of 400 to 550 kilometres (250 to 340 mi) per day. On 22 December, it crossed Vavuniya in Sri Lanka and made landfall at Dhanushkodi on the night of 22–23 December 1964. Estimated wind velocity was 280 kilometres per hour (170 mph) and tidal waves were 7 metres ...
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. A train called Boat mail ...
Dhanushkodi Beach lies on the tip of the Rameswaram island. [1] In this beach, the Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mannar Sea of Indian Ocean merge which is known as Arichal Munai in Tamil. [ 2 ] Before 1964, Dhanushkodi was a busy, crowded city.
[115] [116] Hardest hit was the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, on Rameswaram Island. [117] Located in the Tamil Nadu state, Dhanushkodi had 2,000 residents and had been "a bustling coastal town with pilgrims, travellers, fishermen, tourists and others" and the site of the Hindu temple of Vinayaka; it would remain abandoned more than 50 years later.
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