The following is a
chronology of major cyclones in Asia since 1960:
1960 BANGLADESH - About
10,000 people are killed after a cyclone packing winds of 210
kph hits Bangladesh.
1961 BANGLADESH - About
12,500 people are killed in a cyclone which batters coastal
communities with wind speed of up to 161 kph.
1963 BANGLADESH - Severe
cyclone hits coastal Chittagong region in the night, destroying
about 1 million homes, and killing more than 11,500 people.
1970 BANGLADESH - The
country's deadliest cyclone destroys Chittagong and dozens of
coastal villages, killing around 500,000 people.
1977 INDIA - More than
10,000 people die when a cyclone hits India's southeast Andhra
coast. The storm displaces more than 5 million people, and
damages 1.4 million hectares of farmland.
1985 BANGLADESH - About
11,000 people killed when cyclone hits Chittagong, Cox's Bazar
and coastal islands.
1991 BANGLADESH - An
estimated 143,000 people die in Asia's worst storm disaster in
recent memory. Many are swept to their deaths when a 15-foot
tidal surge sweeps through low-lying Bangladesh.
1999 INDIA - A
"super-cyclone" slams into northeast state of Orissa killing at
least 9,885.
2007 BANGLADESH - Cyclone
Sidr strikes Bangladesh, killing around 3,500 people.
2008 MYANMAR - A devastating
cyclone strikes Myanmar, killing thousands and leaving many more
missing.
