Sentence examples for major cyclone from inspiring English sources

In that year a major cyclone resulted in thousands of deaths and the inundation of numerous salt mines in India.

Analysis of two distinct topographic datasets bracketing the last major cyclone Dina in 2002 allows the estimation of the river sediment budget resulting from this event.

Officials in Orissa and the northern part of the adjoining Andhra Pradesh state, scrambled Friday to evacuate thousands of people from the coastline as a major cyclone headed for landfall from the Bay of Bengal.

Several tropical cyclones were recorded during the 20th century and passed near the study area; the last major cyclone in this region was Cyclone Gay in 1989 (Kumar et al., 2008; Brand, 2009).

Continuing southeastward, the extratropical remnants crossed the International Dateline on February 29, and Ivy dissipated about 1800 km (1100 mi) southeast of New Zealand on March 2. While Ivy was reaching peak intensity, it passed through Vanuatu, becoming the third major cyclone in 14 months to affect the region, after Cyclone Zoe and Cyclone Gina.

Education is essential for helping children return to a sense of normalcy following a traumatic event, like a major cyclone, and for their long-term development and prospects.

Over the past 25 years, several major cyclones have hit southeastern Africa.

Rapid-onset hazards last over periods of minutes to several days and examples include major cyclones accompanied by high waves and surges or tsunamis created by submarine earthquakes and landslides.

Between 1983 and 2009, Bangladesh was hit 14 times by major cyclones where the centre of the last two major cyclones, reported in 2007 and 2009, did not pass through the Matlab research area.

As per the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the number of major cyclones was 13 during 1897 1947 and rose to 51 during the next 50 years.

The system affected the Northern Vanuatuan Islands between January 10 – 11 and was the fourth major tropical cyclone to affect the island nation since 1985, after Severe Tropical Cyclone's Eric, Nigel and Uma.