^^1970 BHOLA CYCLONE^^

Before letting you know about how helpless a humanbeing can be, I want to mention a  little

about what is called natural disaster and what kind of natural disasters exist. A natural

disaster is a major   adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. These

diasters can include floods,volcanic eruptions,earthquakes,tsunamis, and other geologic

processes.(like  hurricane,typon,cyclone,fire etc).Just considering the  word I have

used,”helpless”,do not think that nothing can be done to prevent or decrease the damages

of these disasters. There is always something to be done for precaution.As  for my selection

of natural diaster,It is 1970 Bhola Cyclone.Let’s start talking about it by giving a little

information about how it broke out,how much it continued and what damages it  resulted

in.The Bhola Cyclone occured on November 7,1990  and lasted for 6 days,ending on 13

November 1970.It killed around 300.00-500.000 people which is the deadliest tropical

cyclone of all time as well as damaging the nature,land .It was blowing at around 185-215

km/h around the place which is called Bangladesh today.It damaged the economy of the

area,causing about86.4 USD $ (according  to 1970 economic conditions).Here is a photo as

regards the disaster.

WHAT MEASURES COULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO DIMINISH SUCH A CATASTROPHE?

First of all,We should take into account the economic and demographic circumstances of the time.The 

country is Pakistan and the year  is 1970. At that time,Pakistan is an undeveloped country which  was facing with poverty,diseases,turmoils.Pakistan lacked of the necessary

power to cope with such a destroying event.Some countries,not all of the countries including

Turkey,tried to help them to overcome this case.The country  especially statesmen could

have warned the local people to take measures against  the probable distaster,even if not

such a destroying one. The Health Instıtutes and First Aıd Organisations could have given

seminars and distributed necessary brochures as to Tropical Disasters.The Authorities could

have been and were supposed to be ready and alert to such an event.Had such measures

been taken beforehand at that time,Such kind of a devastating event would not have broken

out.To sum up,We should be prepared against such events and take the  necessary

protections against  the natural  disasters however inpredictable and inevitable they seem to

be.

YASIN ALTUN

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