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Around 1,800 houses were leveled with others being badly damaged. Boats that were in the path of the cyclone were destroyed. [3] In Paluʼe, around 80% of houses were destroyed. [9] The storm was described as apocalyptic and was nicknamed the "Flores Death Cyclone". [3] [9] Losses were estimated to be at around $5 million (1973 USD). [3] [14]
The region of Indonesia is not generally traversed by tropical cyclones although a lot of systems have historically formed there. [1] In an analysis of tropical cyclone data from the Bureau of Meteorology since 1907 to 2017 which was published after the dissipation of Cyclone Cempaka found that only around 0.62% of all cyclones in the Australian region during those years occurred north of the ...
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A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones , including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
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Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more than 2.6 million people. Most of these deaths were caused by a few deadly cyclones, including the 1737 Calcutta cyclone , the 1839 Coringa cyclone , the 1931 Shanghai typhoon , the 1970 Bhola cyclone , Typhoon Nina in 1975 ...
(5) This is the estimated death toll in Indonesia. An estimated 60,000 more people died in other countries surrounding the Indian Ocean, especially in Sri Lanka. (6) The original official death toll was around 2,200. However several thousands more, perhaps 4,000 or more, were buried in a major mudslide during the earthquake.
On 29 November 2017, Cyclone Cempaka struck southern Java and killed at least nineteen. [10] In early February 2018, floods across Jakarta affected 11,450 people, with over 6,000 evacuated. [11] On 21 February 2018, a Landslide in Pasirpanjang, Brebes, Central Java killed eighteen people. [12]