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Nargis is the deadliest named cyclone in the North Indian Ocean Basin, as well as the second-deadliest named cyclone of all time, behind Typhoon Nina of 1975.
Cyclone Nargis passed over Burma (Myanmar) after having formed in the Bay of Bengal. At one point, Nargis was a Category 4 cyclone, with sustained winds of 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour).
Cycone Nargis struck in May 2008 and caused huge devastation in the military dictatorship of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). The tropical system developed from a low pressure system in the Bay of Bengal during the last week of April.
May 2, 2018 · When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar 10 years ago, 140,000 lives were lost and 800,000 were displaced. The category 4 storm slammed into Myanmar’s low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, an area that...
Cyclone Nargis was the deadliest cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people perished in Banglesh from a landfalling cyclone. Cyclone Nargis is at least the second deadliest named cyclone ever recorded globally, behind Typhoon Nina (1975), which killed over 100,000 in China.
On 02 May 2008, Tropical Cyclone Nargis swept over Myanmar (Burma) and left behind a path of destruction. Wind speeds of more than 200 km/h and a storm surge of up to 3 metres in height destroyed more than 90 percent of housing and large parts of infrastructure in some regions.
Jul 21, 2008 · The Government of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations have released the first comprehensive report covering the impact of Cyclone Nargis on the people in the Ayeyarwady Delta and Yangon.
Tropical cyclone Nargis (category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, SSHS) made landfall on 2 May 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in Myanmar's recorded history. Official death toll...
May 8, 2008 · Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia's deadliest storms by hitting land at one of the lowest points in Myanmar and setting off a storm surge that reached 25 miles...
Feb 21, 2024 · The Bay of Bengal Ocean basin is notorious for generating devastating tropical cyclones, such as Nargis and the Bhola cyclone that struck Bangladesh in 1970, killing approximately 300,000 to 500,000 people.
