Aftermath
Mitigation structures that have been built since.
What are cyclone shelters, warning systems, defensive dykes, and community preparedness activities?
The category rating.
What is category 3?
The height of the storm surge.
What is 10 meters or 33 feet.
A geological feature that contributed to the massive death tolls.
What is flat ground?
The population of Bangladesh prior to the Bhola cyclone.
What is 499.7 people per square kilometer?
The effect this event had on area politics.
What is the Bangladesh Liberation War?
The top sustained wind speed.
What is 185 km per hour (115 mph)?
The type of flood.
What is storm surge?
10,000 away from $1 billion in damage.
What is $90 million in damage?
The number of people affected.
What is 3.6 million people?
A special musical event that followed this cyclone.
What is the Bangladesh Concert?
The top wind gust speed.
What is 220 km per hour(138mph)?
The duration of the flood.
What is a relatively short time?
The factors that caused the most structural damage.
What is wind speed and flood?
The way the tide affected the cyclone.
What is a full moon and high tide coinciding with the storm surge?
The number of fishermen in the region who died.
What is 46,000 fishermen?
The low pressure reading.
What is 966 hPa?
Mitigation structures built since specifically for flooding.
What are cyclone shelters, coastal embankments, and resiliant housing?
Death Toll compared to other storms.
What is the deadliest tropical cyclone?
Severe abrasions on the limbs and chest caused by survivors clinging to trees.
What is "Cyclone Syndrome?"
The ways this event affected the food market.
What is 65% of the fishing industry destroyed?
The specific cause of the Bhola Cyclone.
What is a tropical depression from the Southern Bay of Bengal?
The number of people from the death toll who passed specifically due to flooding.
What is 500,000 deaths?
The death toll from the Bhola Cyclone.
What is 500,000 people?
The date of the Bhola Cyclone.
What is November 12, 1970?