ORISSA FLOOD

"....The entire Northern half of the Bay of Bengal and coastline above 13 N has been left out of the effect of the recent Tsunamis. This has created a need to search for a causative factor behind this. Two possible notions are being discussed: (1) that the Tsunami effect could not reach the Northern half of the Bay of Bengal because it was impeded or attenuated by the sea surface currents prevailing in this part of the Bay coupled with bathymetric features whereas in the lower latitudes,these same features reinforced the effect of Tsunamis; (2) the earthquake which reportedly caused a cracking of sea bed / continental plate for a length of about 1000 km. along North to South from North Andaman island to north Sumatra (50-100 km. wide) and radiated the Tsunamis mainly to the East and West of the alignment and whichever coastline came in the way between the latitudes of the crack of the continental plates as mentioned above, were devastated ......"

Tsunamis and Orissa

"....All the river systems in the State were in spate in five spells and 24 districts were affected. Precipitation by the end of July was 68% more than normal. The first spell of floods affected the districts mostly in Western and Southern Orissa and spells of floods in July affected the coastal districts. Discharge through Mahanadi reached 15 lakh cusecs and 14 lakh cusecs of water continued to flow through the system for about a week. 97 lakh people in 18,790 villages coming under 2,757 Gram Panchayats and 68 Urban Local Bodies were affected. 122 human lives were lost, 18,149 cattle perished, 2,12,296 individual dwelling units were damaged and agricultural crop over 80.87 lakh ha were affected..."

1 Total no. of Districts affected 19
2 Total no. of Blocks affected 96
3 Total no. of GPs affected 1129
4 Total no. of villages affected 5199
5 Villages Marooned 1400
6 Population affected 2965986
7 Casualties: Human lives lost 31
8 Casualties: Livestock lost 1886
9 No. of houses affected 102378
10 Crop Area affected 4.105 lakh Hectares
11 No of boats deployed 993
12 No of people evacuated 102401

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Comments

[MANOJ MEHER]

it a good site which provide us updated data which is useful to planner and researcher. it will be betetr it the site provide more minute information i.e name of the village which are affected, then only it will become a full flag information. as a result people will autometacally log to this site..

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