In May 2008, tropical cyclone Nargis bore down on southern Burma, claiming at least 140,000 victims and affecting 2.4 million others. Ignoring protests from foreign governments and aid agencies, Burma ...

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma ...

2. CYCLONE NARGIS (2008) - 138,366 deaths One of the earlier events on the list – and the second most-deadly – was Cyclone ...

One of the deadliest tropical cyclones on record, Cyclone Nargis hit India, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Laos, Yangon, and the Ayeyarwady Region in 2008. Packing winds upward of 120 ...

The ten deadliest storms over the last 20 years have killed 570,000 figures. The data comes from the World Weather ...