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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