Cylone Nargis
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- Created on: 28-03-17 09:30
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- Cyclone Nargis, 2008
- Causes
- Convention increased and decreased
- Low air pressure
- Storm surge
- Myanmar has a delta which fueled Nargis
- Background information
- The cyclone formed on the 27th April in the Bay of Bengal
- Was predicted to hit Bangladesh.
- The cyclone hit Myanamar, located in Asia.
- COLOUR KEY: Dark blue - economic. Orange - social. Green - environmental
- Effects
- Rice paddies destroyed
- 700,000 homes destroyed by the delta
- $10b estimated damage.
- Storm surge contaminated paddy fields
- 75% livestock killed
- 146,000 fatalities
- 75% of health services and schools destroyed
- 2.4 million effected
- Responces
- 44 counties donated money, food and shelter
- Projects introduced to farmers and shcools to help rebuild
- Improving infrastructure
- Preparing vulnerable people
- Government took a long time to ask the UN for help
- For a few days volentury workers were banned
- Causes
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