Yearender 2022: Major natural disasters that struck India in 2022

A natural disaster is a natural event that causes great damage to property or loss of human life While India was already battling with the Covid19 pandemic this year climate changeinduced natural disasters like floods and cyclones have also been making lives miserable for people in India Some of them have even been lifethreateningIndia recorded an extreme weather event on almost 90 per cent of the days in the first nine months this year according to a report of Centre for Science and Environment CSEThis means that India has seen close to a disaster every day in the nine months of this year ndash from heat and cold waves cyclones and lightning to heavy rains floods and landslides the report Extreme Weather Report 2022 statedThese disasters have claimed 2755 lives affected 18 million hectare of crop area destroyed over 416667 houses and killed close to 70000 livestockAlso Read Yearender 2022 The most viral moments of the yearWith an event every second day Madhya Pradesh saw the highest number of days with extreme weather events but Himachal Pradesh saw the highest number of human fatalities 359 deaths Madhya Pradesh and Assam witnessed 301 human deaths each Assam reported the highest number of damaged houses and animal deathsHeres a look at the natural disasters that took place this year in IndiaAmarnath floodsSecurity officials at Amarnath cave area PicPallav PaliwalIn one of the deadliest monsoonrelated incidents this year at least 16 people lost their lives and several were injured in a cloudburst near the Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir on July 8 2022Uttar Pradesh floodsRepresentative Image PiciStockSix people died in rainrelated incidents in Uttar Pradesh where over 1300 villages in 18 districts were affected by floods A total of 287 villages were affected by floods in Balrampur district 129 villages in Siddharthnagar 120 in Gorakhpur 114 in Shravasti 110 in Gonda 102 in Bahraich 86 in Lakhimpur Kheri and 82 in Barabanki districtManipur landslideRescue operations after a massive landslide hit the Tupul railway construction camp PicPTIA landslide occurred in the Noney district of Manipur near the Tupul railway construction site on the night of June 30 2022 At least 58 people were killed in the incident Twentynine Indian Army personnel and 29 civilians were among the deceasedCyclone AsaniFile PicSevere Cyclonic Storm Asani was a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall in India in May 2022 Cyclone Asani originated from a depression that the Indian Meteorological Department first monitored on May 7 Conditions rapidly favored development as the system became a deep depression by that day before intensifying into a Cyclonic Storm On the next day it peaked and turned into a severe cyclonic storm before making landfall as a deep depression system over Andhra Pradesh It weakened into a wellmarked lowpressure on May 12Uttarakhand avalancheFile PicAn avalanche hit the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand on October 4 Twentyseven mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering were killed due to the avalanche The avalanche occurred at a height of 17000 feet on Tuesday when a team of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering NIM was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak in UttarakhandWith inputs from Agencies