In the United States continues to disassemble the ruins after the rusty of Hurricane Michael, which is attributed to the fourth category and some meteorologists are already named the strongest hurricane in the XXI century. It is reported that the winds of the wind reached a speed of 200 km / h, and in many places the hurricane just pulled the trees with the roots and broke the massive roofs. 33 people became victims of the elements, most of whom were killed in Florida. Also, significant damage is caused by other states of the southeastern coast of the United States, in particular North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, which are celebrated human sacrifices, significant damage to houses and infrastructure. The hurricane almost completely destroyed one of the American air bases in the state of Florida, whose command was compared to the rolling hurricane with bombardment, adding that the consequences of the elements of the elements were for the aircraft workers with catastrophic.
Was Michael really the strongest hurricane?
You can remember that in recent years, Michael is not the first hurricane, which collapsed in the United States. No less catastrophic consequences brought hurricanes:
- Irma (2017);
- Catherine (2005);
- Harvey (2017);
- Ike (2009), etc.
Exactly a year ago in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, the deadly hurricane of Irma, who was also considered the strongest hurricane. When he approached the American coast, his power slept, thanks to which the essential victims and destruction in the US themselves managed to avoid. However, the hurricane was attributed to the fifth category and this particularly made it one of the most terrible hurricanes, because when he swept over the Atlantic and the Caribbean Islands, there were no trace from some of them.
After a hurricane Irma on the once picturesque island of Barbuda, more than 90% of buildings and buildings were destroyed. When an aerial photograph was made above the island, it was like that atomic bomb just dropped it. A similar story happened on Saint-Martin Island, located in French jurisdiction. All infrastructure and hundreds of homes were destroyed in the city, and 11 people were killed. To restore it, the French government allocated tens of millions of euros, but this is not enough to return the island to the previous state.
Hurricane Katrina and its consequences
In the list of the most terrible hurricanes, ever collapsed on the US coast forever will enter the hurricane of Katrina, covered the southeastern coast in 2005. This hurricane was the fifth category and at the time when he approached the coast, the wind speed reached 280 km / h. This is one of the biggest numbers in history, which has taken Catherine among the most destructive hurricanes in the history of mankind. The element fell into the United States during the presidency of J. Bush Jr., who announced the complete evacuation of the inhabitants of the coastal states recognized by the disaster zones.
But it did not save America from the tragedy, because many did not leave, and the hurricane was really deadly. He led to the full flooding of the city of New Orleans, in which there were about 150 thousand inhabitants at that time. Since the activities of administrative and communal services were almost completely stopped, social problems began in the city. The rescue operation, which was then spent by the American authorities, is considered one of the worst examples in the history of the rescue services, and the rating of the American president himself after Hurricane Katrina fell below 40%. All because, as a result of the elements and inept actions of the J. Bush administration, 1836 people died in official calculations, one hundred people were missing, and the total economic damage exceeded 90 billion.
Ike and Harvey - the strongest hurricanes after Catherine
If we talk about hurricanes whose consequences have become the most devastating for the economy, it is impossible not to recall the Harvey hurricane, which fell into Southeast Texas in 2017, all because he caused a large-scale flood, flooding, in particular, Houston and led to death more 80 people. In the state, explosions occurred at two chemical plants, and throughout the Texas there were massive power outages. As we reported, later these plants. The total damage from Harvey is estimated at $ 70 billion, which is one of the largest sums spent from the budget to eliminate the effects of a tropical storm or hurricane.
Some towns of the United States still have not coped with the consequences of the tropical hurricane Aik, swept along the southeastern coast in 2008. His diameter exceeded 900 km, which made the Ike record-in-hurricane in the XXI century. He also became one of the strongest hurricanes over the past 10 years, as he led to the flooding of the port town town of Galveston in Texas, as well as to destroy the total amount of $ 20 billion. In addition, the islands of Haiti and Cuba were significantly injured, where almost 50 people were killed and Significant material damage was caused. As practice shows, it is these island states that suffer during the elements rags most.
The name "Hurricane" occurred from the English word "Hurricane", which is used to indicate strong cyclones. Hurricanes are oceanic waters, as a rule, off the coast of Northern and South America. A close relative of Hurricane accounts for Typhoon, which originates in Asia and the Far East.
And hurricanes and typhoons are characterized by small sizes, but at the same time truly destructive power. The speed of wind movement inside the helix can reach several hundred kilometers, and tidal waves that raises the hurricane, can often be compared with a high-rise house.
I present you the 5 most powerful hurricanes in the entire history of mankind, each of which is awarded the fifth, the highest category on the scale of Saffira Simpson.
Typhoon Bhola.
On the night of November 13, 1970 on the coastal areas of Eastern Pakistan (now the People's Republic of Bangladesh), the incredible values \u200b\u200bof Typhoon fell. Hurricane wind, whose speed reached 240 km / h, raised a powerful wave from the ocean to 8 meters high. The giant wall of the water went over the chain of the densely populated islands and Delta Ganges, bringing the bridges, destroying the highway and washing from the face of the Earth whole villages along with the inhabitants. The number of victims by different estimates ranges from 500 thousand to a million people. In total, over 10 million people suffered from the swirling element.Hurricane Katrina
The name of Catherine is well familiar to most of the Americans. The most destructive hurricane in the history of the United States originated on August 23, 2005 in the Bahamas area. Lightningly gaining power, Catherine at a speed of 280 km / h flashed over the coast of Florida and then turned towards the Mexican Gulf. Measures to evacuate the districts of the victim of the hurricane were taken too late. As a result, about two thousand people died due to the fault of the authorities, and half a million lost the roof over her head. The city of New Orleans, whose most lies below the sea level, almost completely under water.Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane, who received the name of Mitch, is one of the most powerful typhoons that have passed over the Atlantic pool. His wind speed at the maximum reached 285 km / h. It was formed in the Caribbean October 22, 1998. All the power of the hurricane fell into the territory of Honduras, Nicaragua. Then, thoroughly lost in force, Typhoon went to Guatemala and Salvador. The victims of the hurricane were about 11 thousand people, about the same amount disappeared. Almost 3 million people left without bed.Great Hurricane San Callisto
Tropical cyclone's most powerful in history, brought with a stubborn autumn of 1780 in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Caribbean archipelago. According to the archives, the hurricane burned 22 thousand lives, but it can be safely argued that the number of victims who did not fall into the chronicles were several times more. San Callisto raned from Newfoundland Island to Barbados, swept over Haiti, playing dyed into the ocean 95% of all buildings. Eyewitnesses argued that the wind, the speed of which reached up to 350 km / h, broke the bark from the trunks of the trees before writing them. A wave of 7-8 meters in the height raised by Hurricane, tried the work of San Callisto, destroying everything else that Typhoon spared.
The storm, rising in the sea, flooded many vessels both in ports and disposable from the coast. The storm broke into sins of the English and French fleets who took an active part in the Civil War, which at that time was carried out in the United States.
SuperTayfun Yolanda (Hayan)
On November 8, 2013, SuperTayfun, carrying the wind with a speed of 315 km / h (individual gusts up to 379 km / h), raised the waves with a height of up to 5 meters, which collapsed to the Philippines. The hurricane came from the east coast of the Island of Samar and began the bearing of death and the destruction of the campaign through the central part of the country. It is known more than 8,000 dead and missing. According to the UN, more than 11 million people suffered from Typhoon, mostly residents of the Philippines and Vietnam.
Over the year, more than 700 hurricanes of different strength are sweeping over the territory of the United States. The leader in the number of these devastating phenomena is recognized by the state of Kansas with its 1200 cyclones per year. By the way, if in North and South America, destructive tropical cyclones, causing tornado or tornadoes, are called hurricanes, they are called typhoons in Asia. Today we are present Top 10 most destructive hurricanes in historywhose victims were hundreds of residents of different areas of the planet.
In Russia, such cataclysms occur significantly less often, and the tornadoes are formed, as a rule, in coastal waters and rarely go to the land.
Powerful Typhoon flew to the shore of Eastern Pakistan, causing the formation of a wave of 8 meters high. The number of victims from a hurricane was from a different estimates amounted to from 300 to 800 thousand people, more than 10 million inhabitants of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India were left without bed.
9. Hurricane Polin (Mexico, 1997)
Hurricane wind and pouring rains caused landslides and floods in different parts of Mexico. About 400 people are killed, and 300 thousand Mexicans remained without housing and livelihoods. Damage caused by Pauline is estimated at $ 7.5 billion.
8. Hurricane Nargiz (Myanmar, 2008)
The hurricane entailed a catastrophic flood, from which, according to the UN, killed 138 thousand people. 2.4 million inhabitants of Myanmar are affected by victims. Damage caused to Nargiz is estimated at $ 4 billion.
7. Hurricane Sandy (USA, 2012)
The most destructive hurricane last year fell on the east coast of the United States. 113 people became victims of hurricane. The greatest damage was made by the states of New York and New Jersey.
6. Typhoon Nina (China, 1975)
The destructive strength of Hurricane Nina allowed Bankao's dam to break through the dam, which caused a catastrophic flood and destruction of other dams. The number of hurricane victims ranges from 100 to 230 thousand people.
5. Hurricane Charlie (USA, Cuba, Jamaica, 2004)
The gusts of the wind during the rampant of this element reached 240 km / h. Hurricane was assigned the 4th category on the Saffira Simpson scale of five possible. In the US, 2 million people were evacuated. Damage from Charlie amounted to $ 16.3 billion.
4. Hurricane Ivan (USA, Cuba, Cayman Islands, 2004)
Hurricane was assigned the highest five category on the Suffira Simpson scale. Element is guided in large-scale destruction in Cuba, in the USA, on Jamaica and Grenada. Damage caused by Ivan is estimated at $ 18 billion.
3. Hurricane Willma (USA, Cuba, 2005)
This hurricane is a powerful cyclone in the Atlantic in the entire history of observations. The cyclone originated in the ocean and went to the land several times. 62 people are considered dead from Wilma, damage is estimated at $ 29 billion.
2. Hurricane Ike (USA, 2008)
The diameter of the giant vortex was more than 900 km. Wind speed during hurricane reached 135 km / h. The cyclone "Walked" through the US territory is 14 hours, bringing a total of $ 30 billion with itself.
1. Hurricane Katrina (USA, 2005)
The most destructive hurricane of the last decade is definitely Catherine. One of says that they are almost never accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning, Katrina has become an exception to this rule. On the scale of Saffira Simpson, the cyclone received the fifth category. The flood caused by hurricane was covered with 80% of New Orleans under water. 1836 people died, and the damage was $ 125 billion.
It is unlikely that the dry description of the hurricane can transmit all its power and destructive power. It can only be said that in the hurricane of average power, so much energy is distinguished as the explosion of four hundred hydrogen 20 megaton bombs. And to our happiness, that only 2-4% of all this power is transmitted by the strength of the wind. Although this is enough enough to feel the horror of the destruction and victims, which are also a consequence of a huge wave arising from the passage of hurricane.
Hurricane power is determined by a five-point scale. To date, humanity survived only a few such cataclysms of the greatest devastating force. The strongest hurricanes in the world and caused damage them are described below.
MITH
October 1998 became a heavy test at once for several countries of the Caribbean coast. The hurricane of indescribable power walked along Salvador, Honduras. Nicaragua. Just imagine the speed of the wind sometimes exceeded 320 km / h. The most powerful wind, tidal waves and the resulting villages were absorbed 20 thousand people, more than 1 million remained without housing, food, water and medicine. Epidemics joined the catastrophe.
Great hurricane
In the autumn of 1780, nature wrapped his anger to the island of the Caribbean. San Calikesto, or a great hurricane, with its huge power, walked from Newfoundland to Barbados himself, did not bypassed Haiti. And although the data for those times is very inaccurate, history speaks of 22 thousand victims. The 7-meter wave demolished almost all the villages, ships in the bays and near the coast were flooded. Eyewitnesses of that time were described by an incredible rain, which broke the bark of trees before they were writing. Scientists suggest that the wind reached 350 km / h.
Katrina
This monster with a beautiful female name appeared not so long ago. Buggy in August 2005 and quickly gaining power, Hurricane Katrina wrapped his anger on the American coast. To such a rapid development of the events of power were not ready. The deadly hurricane, who was assigned the highest category, killed 1836 people, more than 500 thousand were left without a roof above their heads. Surely, everyone remembers the stunning reports from the destroyed and flooded New Orleans. The most terrible thing that human heartshes joined the elements: Morodeloca was raging in the affected areas, chaos reigned everywhere.
Typhoon in Pakistan
This natural disaster that happened in November 1970 was probably the most devastating in the entire history of the existence of the human race. The wind of incredible strength raised an 8-meter wave, which swept along the coast and several islands. In Typhoon, up to 1 million people died, and the number of victims exceeded 10 million. Damage from Typhoon did not give in to counting: the infrastructure was completely destroyed, a huge number of settlements simply disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Hurricane - tropical type of cyclone. It is distinguished relatively small sizes, but rather destructive power. The name "Hurricane" itself occurred from English "Hurricane", which is used to naming strong cyclones.
As a rule, they are born near North or South America. Its neighbors and close relatives come from the region of Asia, and the Far East, and usually, weaker. They are called "typhoons".
It is worth noting that not every cyclone may be called a hurricane. Some pass with atmospheric phenomena characteristic and fond. The cyclone itself is an impressive atmospheric swirl, which is twisted in the southern hemisphere clockwise, and counterclockwise in the north. They are particularly clearly seen from space. But the atmospheric phenomenon, if you look at the top, has a spiral shape with a hole in the middle, this is the so-called "eye of a storm." In the center of the cyclone there is a zone of reduced pressure. The cyclones are obliged to rotate the planet, with simultaneous movement of it according to orbit, so this phenomenon is considered usual.
The size of cyclones can be several thousand kilometers, the eye varies from 2-3 kilometers and up to several dozen. As a rule, hurricane sizes are significantly less, but the speed of air movement in the spiral is much faster and reaches several hundred kilometers per hour. Maximum 300 kilometers per hour.
In the area, which is called "Eyes Buri" (or eye Typhoon) usually the weather with higher temperatures. The warm air is lowered and falls into the first coils of the spiral, where the colder mass. As a result, the territory is formed with high pressure differences. She, in turn, contributes to the spinning of the air masses of the hurricane in general. Therefore, the center of the spiral, near the "eyes", has increased power, the highest speed and, usually, thunderstorm clouds causing pouring livne.
Tropical hurricanes originate over the warm waters of the oceans somewhere in the equator area. As a result of the rotation of the planet, they move to the West and shift to the north. This causes a large number of hurricanes in the eastern shores of North America, as well as Mexico. These territories are more recently suffering from the consequences of strong hurricanes.
The power of the hurricane is measured on the Saffira-Simpson scale, which has five categories. Today, only a few hurricanes of the fifth, the highest category are known.
Now every year is recruited about a dozen cyclones and several dozen cyclones on the entire planet. And here are the strongest of them.
The strongest hurricane in the world
Great Hurricane of 1780, or another name - San Calique. This is a tropical cyclone of a huge power, which was taken by the fall of 1780 near the Caribbean archipelago. He became the most deadly of all famous hurricanes. According to documents of that time, it is known at least about 22 thousand dead. And since in the eighteenth century, the statistics were very conditional, compared with today, it can be safely argued that the number of victims was much larger.
The Great Hurricane Bowl of the Caribbean Island, from Newfoundland Island to Barbados, passed Haiti and destroyed up to 95 percent of all buildings. And this is not counting thousands of ruined lives. A tidal wave, which caused a hurricane, as if the most powerful tsunami, passed on some islands, reaching sometimes 7-8 meters in height. She demolished absolutely everything in his way. The hurricane was accompanied by the strongest unrest at the sea, so many ships were flooded and in the port bays, and in some distance from the shore. Including the water, part of the French and English fleets took part in the US Civil War. Approximately hundreds of vessels in the water area of \u200b\u200bthe stranded.
Eyewitnesses said that rain, under the action of a strong wind, broke off the bark from the trunks of the trees, and it is before you to sole them. According to the conclusions of scientists, the wind speed was then at least 350 kilometers per hour.
MITH
Hurricane, who received the name Mitch, passed through the Atlantic basin with incredible power and power. He originated in October 1998 in the south of the Caribbean Sea. Meteorologists assigned to him the fifth category, the highest. This is due to wind speed, whose gusts reached 320 kilometers per hour. The hurricane touched the territory of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador.
Hurricane Mitch. Effects
He completely devastated them and killed 20 thousand people. Most people died from selevo-mud streams, strong winds and tidal waves, which rumped up to 6 meters in height. More than a million people remained without housing, and hundreds needed drinking water and medical preparations. As a result, it led to an increase in infectious diseases.
Katrina
The name of Catherine is known to every American. Since this is the strongest and most destructive hurricane of all who have ever collapsed on the coast of America. Hurricane Katrina originated in August 2005 in the Bahamas area. He quickly gained power and began to develop towards the east coast of the United States. As soon as the weather reached the American coast, the Hurricane has received the fifth category.
But for the adoption of the necessary measures was too late. The authorities could not cope with the consequences of disaster. Therefore, at that time, the Rating of President George Bush fell to 38 percent. Only according to official data, more than one and a half thousand people became victims of the hurricane. About half a million left no bed. Moreover, approximately 80 percent of the Square of New Orleans are flooded.
Typhoon in Pakistan
On the night of November 13, 1970, the most powerful Typhoon flew on the coastal areas of East Pakistan. The hurricane wind formed a huge wave to 8 meters high. She swept over a number of islands and coastal areas. This Typhoon became hardly the largest catastrophe in the entire history of mankind. According to different estimates, the number of dead was from 500 thousand to a million people.
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