Geography - Cyclone Aila
- Created by: renesazeka
- Created on: 26-03-19 20:55
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- Case study: Cyclone Aila (Component1)
- Occurred in Bangladesh in May 2009
- Its peak wind strength was 360 km/h
- Category 1 Hurricane
- Low air pressure (967mb) caused sea level to rise, creating a huge storm surge.
- Estuary region receives 210mm of rainfall
- Its peak wind strength was 360 km/h
- Social impacts
- 190 people were killed
- 750,000 were made homeless
- 3.5 million people were affected.
- 59000 animals died, depriving families of food.
- By mid-2010, over 200,000 people hadn't returned home
- Environmen-tal Impacts
- Loss of animals meant that animal dung, a source of fuel, was lost increasing pressure on firewood sources
- Flooding meant that fresh water was contaminated by sewage and air brought mosquitos (and malaria)
- An area of Mangrove was badly affected Home to the royal-bengal tiger. 30 drowned.
- Economic Impacts
- Most people had labouring jobs and were forced into slums
- $295.6 million in damages?
- Occurred in Bangladesh in May 2009
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