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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 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 .
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 ...
It traversed coast-to-coast linking Kochi in Kerala with Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu. It crosses the famous Pamban Bridge (Annai Indira Gandhi Bridge) before crossing into Rameswaram island. The total length runs up to 440 km (270 mi). [1] The 5 km road between Mukundarayar Chathiram and Dhanuskodi was destroyed during the 1963 cyclone and was ...
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.
A burst of tropical vigor last week is withering in the final days of June with a Saharan dust outbreak trying to throttle storm development from Africa to the Caribbean.. The dust, made up of ...
Historical map of Adam's Bridge and environs, before the cyclone of 1964 Pearl fishing in the Gulf of Mannar, c. 1926. In the vicinity of Adam's Bridge/Rama Setu, the water is typically only 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) deep. [5] Due to the shallow waters, Adam's Bridge presents a formidable hindrance to navigation through the Palk Strait.