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Catastrophe Report 5
February 21 - July 21, 2004 |
Flood - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan
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Japan |
| Region: |
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Niigata, Fukui and Fukushima prefectures,
NW Japan |
| Date: |
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Mid - June – July, 2004 |
| Event: |
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Flood |
| Impact: |
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In the Indian state of Bihar, 20.15 million people
were affected, with 380,000 evacuated and 350,000 homes destroyed
or badly damaged. In neighbouring Assam, the number affected
is put at 10.12 million, with 112 dead. In Bangladesh, more
than 19 million people are affected, with 185 dead. Here, over
11,000 square kilometres of land has been inundated, with 151,000
homes destroyed and another 1.2 million damaged. 23,000 km of
roads and 1,700 bridges or culverts have been destroyed or damaged,
along with one and a half million acres of crops. Half a million
people remain in shelters in Bangladesh. The current overall
death toll is above 800 and rising. The full economic cost of
the disaster remains to be established.
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| Summary: |
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Severe monsoon conditions led to some of the
worst flooding in living memory across NE India, Bangladesh,
Nepal and Bhutan. Although arriving late, the monsoon is not
unusually intense, and anthropogenic factors such as deforestation
and urbanisation are being blamed for the scale of the flooding.
Most of the rivers in the great drainage basins of the Brahmaputra
– Jamuna, Ganges – Padma and Megna have reached
unprecedented or danger levels. The floods are expected to persist
at least until early August, when high tides in the Bay of Bengal,
related to a full moon on August 1st – 2nd, will hinder
the outflow of floodwaters. |
| Data sources: |
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Pacific Disaster Management Information Network
http://pdmin.coe-dmha.org/apdr/archives/APDR_071504.htm
ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND
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NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12262
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