The document summarizes a presentation on natural disasters titled "Nature's Fury". It discusses different types of natural hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods and cloud bursting. It specifically focuses on the 2013 Uttarakhand floods caused by heavy rainfall and glacier melting. Over 8,000 people died in the floods, 10,000 were injured and 30,000 were stranded in the valleys. The floods damaged over 1,500 roads, 154 bridges and destroyed more than 2,200 houses. While natural factors contributed, the document also attributes man-made causes like tourism, deforestation, and lack of disaster management to the floods. It calls for better land use policies and use of technology to

1. Paper presentation
on
nature’s fury
Presented by :- Rashmi Surabhi
Reg. No:- GIN (113411)

2. nature’s fury
 natural hazard resulting destruction, loss of life, and
health of the population
 occurs suddenly and unexpectedly
 Earthquake, volcano, tsunami, cloud bursting, etc

3.  Earthquakes:- A sudden, rapid shaking of the earth.
 Tsunami:- Series of waves generated by an undersea
disturbance such as an earthquake.
 Hurricanes:- A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds,
having constant speed of 74 mph or more.

4. Floods & cloud bursting:-
 extremely dangerous water
force
 can roll boulders, tear out trees,
destroy buildings, and
obliterate bridges.
 The most recent cloud bursting
flood disaster happened In
Uttrakhand.

5. Uttrakhand tragedy
 From 14 to 17 June 2013, Uttrakhand received
heavy rainfall.
 The heavy rains resulted in large flash floods and
massive landslides.
 The rain fall was above the normal benchmark.

6. Statistics of Loss of life:-
10,000
10,000
30,000
2800
death
injured
stuked in
velly
missing

7. Statistics of other Damages
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
victim
villages
damaged
roads
houses get
damged
bridges get
dmaged

8. Damages:-
 8,000 death occurred, 10,000 persons get injured &
30,000 were stuck in the valley
 2800 persons were missing
 1520 roads get damaged
 154 bridges get damaged
 2232 houses completely get destroyed
 4,200 villages were victims of the floods

10. Causes:-
 It is declared as natural disaster so obviously natural
causes involves.
Natural causes
1. Heavy rainfall
2. Melting of glacier

11. 1.375% more
rainfall
2.Glacier melted
3. flood in rivers
16th June

13. Manmade causes:-
Manmade causes
Hydel power
plants Tourism deforestatio
n
Disaster management
And government
negligence

15. What can be done for reduction?????
 need for the development of mechanisms for better
management of tourism and the tourist.
 Proper land use policies should be framed in order to
regulate construction .
 Green development is far most important.
 Remote sensing technology should be used.

16. Conclusion:-
 Lastly I conclude that these calamities and destruction
may primarily be caused by nature but they are man-
made too.
 Man may progress in all fields but when nature is
against him, that’s the end of mankind.
 The tragic floods of Uttrakhand are a warning to us to
stop playing with nature.

17. References:-
 articles.timesofindia.
 www.downtoearth.org.in
 www.indianexpress.com
 www.ndtv.com
 www.sliedshare.com
 www.wikipedia.com

19. Any quires???????