Natural Disaster Essay

India is regularly affected each year by both expected and unexpected natural disasters and is one of the largest and most vulnerable countries, in terms of exposure to natural hazards including floods, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis or droughts each year. These natural disasters affect a substantial part of the population – for example the Bihar floor in 2007 affected 23 million people. The accounted direct losses from natural calamities more than quadrupled from 1981 to 1995 reaching to $13.4bn, as compared to the losses registered during the previous 15 years ($2.9bn). This alarming trend is accelerating with total losses of $13.8bn reported during the period from

Since the country always have to face “Mother’s Nature” furry in the form of earthquake, floods and cyclones. India doesn’t always learn from the disaster and not until last few decades it was left on the mercy of Mother Nature itself.

However since Industrialisation and urbanisation India has started observing other nations including developing and smaller and slowly adopting the way to deal with it.

Aim

To study, understand and analyse the impact and post long term recovery from the recent diverse disasters taken plane in India.

Fig: 1 Shaking of the land of Gandhi - Gujarat Earthquake, 26th January | Source: (http://ceenve.calpoly.edu/faculty-pages/goel/indian_eqk/index.htm#My_Photographs)

2001 Gujarat Earthquake

On January 26, 2001 at 08:52am, when the country was celebrating its 52nd Republic day a 7.9 Richter a devastating earthquake struck the India’s western state of Gujarat for about two minutes.

It was India’s worst earthquake in more than 50 years. It was an intraplate earthquake, and occurred away from the distance of an active plate bou...

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...e government, non-government organisation. Indian army units were the first one to erect the medical camp on disaster site.

The news of the earthquake became the international headline and the local councils, communities, state and central government the Indian army and other disaster relief organisation, the volunteers and various donors, national and international, responded to this catastrophic emergency. The relief supply was airlifted from all over the country to the Bhuj airbase which was still operational. The Indian air force carried our virtually nonstop uninterrupted relief operation. The cargo aircraft from other countries started arriving from next day.

The volunteers unloaded these relief supplies quickly which was usually, tents, clothes, water, food snacks, flashlights and medicines. The newly arrived sniffer dogs and the electronic devices to find