kazakhstan
Arabian
Sea
Red seasaudi arabia
oman
yemen
bahrain
iraq
qata r
uae
mongolia
iran
armenia
turkey
india
afghanistan
pakistan
thailand
syria
jordan
kuwait
turkmenistan
bangladesh
myanmar
india 1999
Odisha Cyclone
Deaths: More than 10,000
Max wind speed: 260km/h
Damages
USD4.4 billion
india 1998
Gujarat Cyclone
Deaths: More than 10,000
Max wind speed: 165km/h
Damages
USD258 million bangladesh 1991
Cyclone Gorky
Deaths: More than 135,000
Max wind speed: 193km/h
Damages
USD1.7 billion
india, bangladesh,
sri lanka, myanmar 1998
Cyclone Nargis
Deaths: More than 130,000
Max wind speed: 213km/h
Damages
USD10 billion
Caspian
Sea
azerbaijan
China
bhutan
nepal
tajikistan
kyrgyzstan
Cambodia
georgia uzbekistan
vietnam
sri lanka
memories
Fast Fact
Cyclones, hurricanes and
typhoons refer to the same
weather phenomenon, but
different names are used for
the different locations of the
super storms: Hurricanes in
the Atlantic/Northeast Pacific,
typhoons in the Northwest
Pacific and cyclones in the
South Pacific/Indian Ocean.
Weathering the Storms
REMEMBERING SOME OF ASIA’S
DEVASTATING CYCLONES AND TYPHOONS