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Earthquakes in Bangladesh are frequent and often cause damage. The earthquakes occur due to a convergent boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Bangladesh, India Tropical cyclone November 11 – 16 2008 138,373 Cyclone Nargis: Myanmar April 27 – May 3 2009 1,115 2009 Sumatra earthquakes: Indonesia Earthquake September 30 2010 100,000–316,000 2010 Haiti earthquake: Haiti Earthquake January 12 2011 19,749 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami: Japan Earthquake, Tsunami March 11 2012 1,901
Entire coast of Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) Cyclone: Bengal 200,000+ 1897 A cyclone with a storm-surge of 12.2 metres (40 ft) hit Meghna River estuary near Chittagong, Barisal, and Noakhali. Casualty is about 200,000. The storm also caused epidemic and famine, and vast property damage. Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876: Cyclone
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The 1997 Chittagong earthquake (also known as the Bandarban earthquake) occurred on 21 November at 11:23 UTC in the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region. It had a magnitude of M w 6.1. The epicenter was located in southern Mizoram , India.
Tropical cyclones affecting Bangladesh have killed about 1.54 million people in the Bengal region.. Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organisation (SPARRSO), a government agency under the Ministry of Defence [1] provides storm predictions and early warnings using feeds from NASA and NOAA's satellites.
[9] 50 people were injured in Chittagong, Bangladesh, rushing out of Ready Made Garment factories. [10] Some fifty persons suffered injuries in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and north eastern city of Sylhet as they fled their homes and other buildings during the earthquake. [5] Tremors were also felt in eastern and central Nepal. [5]
The storm's motion was influenced primarily by a nearby subtropical ridge, forcing the system to take a north-northeasterly track. [11] Cyclone Mora intensifying over the Bay of Bengal on May 29. Cloud tops over southeastern Bangladesh exceeded 15.3 km (9.5 miles), and over the Bay of Bengal cloud tops reached almost 16 km (9.9 miles). [12]