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Hi viewers, i am abizer bohra from choithram international,india.i was given a task to create a wiki page.so ichoose my topic "the natural disasters in india'.so just check my information given on my topic.i hope you will like it and send comment on it.

= = =Natural disasters in India =

Floods are the most common natural disaster in India. The heavy southwest monsoon rains cause the Brahmaputra and other rivers to distend their banks, often flooding surrounding areas. Though they provide rice paddy farmers with a largely dependable source of natural irrigation and fertilisation, the floods can kill thousands and displace millions of peoples. There so many types of disasters like;
 * Natural disasters in India**, many of them related to the climate of India,cause massive losses of Indian life and property. Droughts,flash,floods cyclones, avalanches,landslides brought on by torrential rains, and snowstorms pose the greatest threats.

=1.DROUGHTS = Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on the monsoon as a source of water. In some parts of India, the failure of the monsoons result in water shortages, resulting in below-average crop yields. This is particularly true of major drought-prone regions such as southern and eastern Maharashtra, northern Karnataka, rajasthan, Orissa and Gujarat.

=2.FLOODS =

 Floods are any high stream flow which overlap natural or artificial banks of a river or a stream and are markedly higher than the usual as well as inundation of low land.Floods are caused by heavy rains that pour to much water into rivers and other waterways. Making these natural channels unable to carry all the water. Rising water flows over or breaks the banks to the waterways causing the surrounding land to be flooded. Different causes of floods can come from masses of snow melting of tidal waves. Sometimes copious monsoon rains combine with massive flows from the rivers, then the floods indeed become calamitous. Through geophysical studies, it has been found that more than one half billion people on our planet reside on river side and coastal flood plains where they produce 1/3 of world’s food production and on any day at least- some fraction of these plains go under flood water and hence causing widespread losses to human lives and heads of cattle dead, devastated homes, destroyed the agricultural crops and disrupted the communication links such as railways, roads as well as damage to health hazards. Even after the receding of floods it takes several months or even years before the community comes to the pre-flood level. So floods are a NATURAL AND INEVITABLE phenomenon of life in almost all the states of Ind ia.

=3.EARTH QUAKES =

An **earthquake** is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes usually occur in places where two plates meet, called faults. Earthquakes are mostly generated deep within the earth's crust, when the pressure between two plates is too great for them to be held in place. The underground rocks then snap, sending shock waves out in all directions. These are called seismic waves.The underground origin of an earthquake is called the focus.The point at which an earthquake originates on the surface is called the epicentre. . As India commemorated its 51st Republic Day on Saturday January 26, a tremendous earthquake struck Gujarat State in the western part of the country. The quake's epicenter was near the town of Bhuj in Kutch District, but tremors from the quake onwhich registered 7.7 on the Richter scale, were felt deep into Pakistan and as far away as Nepal.

= = =4. Tsunamis = = = Tsunami is often misnamed a tidal wave, but in fact a tsunami is not just one wave but usually a series of seven or eight, that have nothing to do with the tide. In the open ocean, tsunamis are only about one metre high, but as they approach shallower waters and the shore, they grow to heights as high as eighty-five meters. The earthquake and resulting tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26th, 2004 had a devastating effect on India. According to the Indian government, almost 11,000 people died in the tsunami and over 5,000 are missing and feared dead.It is estimated that 380,000 Indians have been displaced by the disaster and reconstruction is expected to cost more than 1.2 billion dollars. The areas hardest hit by the tsunami were the southeastern coast and the Andaman and Nicobar island.



The dreadful moment when the Tsunami of 26 December 2004 hits the Thai coast after travelling ca. 400 km around the northern tip of Sumatra and then WNW across the Andaman sea and the Strait of Malacca. The coast shown in this photograph is "sheltered" (if that is quite the word for it in these circumstances) by Sumatra. The epicentre of the earthquake was on the far side of Sumatra and the tsunami had to work its way around the northern tip of that island, losing a lot of energy in the process. The photograph captures only too clearly the tremendous power that even a weakened major tsunami can have.