DURHAM, N.C. – A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests ...

Mangrove Forests Save Lives In Storms, Study Of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 04 / 090414172924.htm ...

BEHRAMPUR, India — An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage, weakened today after making landfall. Five people ...

In case anyone missed this, a “Super Cyclone” of similar strength hit the same region in 1999 and claimed the lives of an estimated 10,000 people. Huge damage to property and crops. While the low ...

Twenty-five years after the devastating super-cyclone of October 29-30, 1999, which tore through coastal Odisha, most survivors have managed to rebuild their lives despite the challenges of ...

Cyclone Hudhud, which made landfall in the city of Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, has killed at least eight people so far. It hit India's east coast at ...

The super cyclone, the second in the region. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 87°F. Tuesday, June 24th 2025 ... Cyclone Amphan tears through India, Bangladesh Share this: ...

Whereas storm watchers in 1999 were guessing at a 300-kilometer range of where the Orissa cyclone would make landfall, that number was cut in half by 2013's models. Along with more certainty about the ...

The only other super cycle on record to hit the Bay of Bengal occurred in October of 1999, and the total damage cost of the destruction wrought by that cyclone was approximated at US$4.44 billion ...