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collection:
nasa new
mediatype:
image
collection:
nasa
collection:
nasanaturalhazards
title:
India Cyclone: Natural Hazards
description:
A tropical cylone that hit India's East coast caused at least one death in Bangladesh and sank four fishing boats in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, November 13, 2002.

Heavily populated, low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh are particularly vulnerable to storms that roar in off the Bay of Bengal. A tropical cyclone in 1991 killed at least 138,000 people and left millions homeless.

The TRMM satellite passed almost directly over the cyclone on Tuesday and TRMM's Precipitation Radar showed the cyclone to have no eye but a well organized circulation.

A 1.2 MB MPEG earthobservatory.nas a.gov/NaturalHazards /Archive/Nov2002/ind ia_cyclone_small.mpg animation is also available.

Image courtesy of Jeff Halverson, TRMM Outreach Scientist and Hal Pierce, TRMM Visualizer, both from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
subject:
Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
subject:
What -- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
subject:
Where -- Bay of Bengal
subject:
Where -- Bangladesh
what:
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
where:
Bay of Bengal
where:
Bangladesh
identifier:
IndiaCyclone_trm2002 316
uploader:
gwilliam@archive.org
addeddate:
2011-07-22 19:13:37
publicdate:
2011-07-22 19:13:37
creator:
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
ImageUID:
file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/IndiaCyclone_t rm2002316/IndiaCyclo ne_trm2002316_lrg.jp g
filename:
IndiaCyclone_trm2002 316_lrg.jpg
date:
2002-11-12
rights:
Public Domain
source:
year:
2002
language:
eng

India Cyclone: Natural Hazards