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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Chronology of Flood and Landslides in Central Himalaya

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01- Year 1868 – a huge landslide blocked the tributary of Birahi River.It made a artificial lake. Suddenly lake burst and flood claimed the lives of 75 people. Birahi river meets Alaknanda near Pipalkoti in Chamoli district of Uttrakhand .
02 - 19 Sept.1880-Massive landslides in Nainital claimed 151 lives, out of them 42 were British.
03 - Year 1880 – A Terrible flood in Sharada River buried Brahmpur town. Township of Tanakpur was settled later.
04 - September 1893 - A massive landslide blocked Birahi River and a artificial lake, ‘ Gauna Tal ’ was formed .
05- 5 August 1894 – Gauna Tal was broken down and 40 thousands million cubic meter water washed away Chamoli, Karnprayag, Rudraprayag , Shrinagar, then capital of Garhwal state, lower part of Deoprayag.
06 - 7 August 1898 – 29 killed in a massive landslide in Kailakhan area of Nainital .
07 - 1937 – Huge landslide in Garbyang village of Pithoragarh district killed many people .
08 - 1945 – Landslide in different villages of Madmaheshwar valley, Rudraprayag district cost 4 lives and ruined many houses .
09 - August 1951 – heavy rainfall and cloud burst made Nayaar river to overflow . It was biggest flood in the River which washed away 20 buses along with more than 100 passengers . A folk song of that tragedy still makes people in to tears . This song tells a sad story of a rich man of that time Goverdhan Das resident of Shivanandi village.
10- 1962 – Mandakini river was blocked by a huge land mass for many days . when this artificial dam burst it caused disaster in whole Madmaheshwar and Mandakini valley. Many people killed in this flood . this was the worst flood in the Madmaheshwar and Mandakini valley.
11- 08 September 1967 – Nanak Sagar dam was broken down due to heavy and continuous rain . 35 villages washed away and 80 people were died but it is told that actual death toll was more than one thousand .
12 – 20 July 1970 – A massive landslide in the catchment area of again overflowed Birahi river after 76 years . huge water mass of Birahi blocked the flow of Alaknanda in dark and rainy night of 20th July at Belakuchi . Belakuchi urban settlement washed away along with several busses, pilgrims and local people. over 70 people killed in this flash flood.
13- 19 July 1971 – Cloud burst killed 12 people and burried 35 houses in Dobata village of Pithoragarh district .
14 – 1976 – Flash flood due to cloud burst killed 11 residents of Baghar village in Kafkot block of Bageshwar district .
15 –14 Aug 1977 – A massive landslide in Tawaghat of Pithoragarh district killed 15 people .
16- August 1977- 44 people including 25 soldiers of ITBP were killed in Tawaghat and its surrounding villages due to heavy rains during 16 to 24 August .
17- 14 Aug 1978 – 4 people killed in a landslide in Rikhari village of Bageshwar district .
18- 1978 – A massive landslide blocked Bhagirathi in Gangnani . 25 people were killed by the flash flood in Bhagirathi .
19- 1979 – A massive landslide destroyed almost the whole Kontha village of Mandakini valley in Chamoli district . 50 residents killed in this calamity .
20 – 23 June 1980 – A landslide in Gyansu village near Uttarkashi left behind 45 people dead .
21 – 9 September 1980 – 15 government officials died in a landslide on Uttarkashi – Gangotri highway near Kanodiya gaad.
22- 1983 –several houses of Karmi village in Kafkot block of Bageshwar district washed away due to Cloud burst. 37 people killed in this natural calamity .
23 – 1984 – Flash flood and landslide killed 9 people in Jagthana & Kanyalikot villages of Kafkot block .
24 – 1990 – More than 100 pilgrims died due to heavy landslide in Neelkanth Mahadev root near Laxmanjhula, Rishikesh.
25 –16 August 1991 – heavy rains due to cloud burst caused several incidents of landslides in Deor khadura, Paduli , Koj , Pepalkoti and Gopeshwar in which 29 people killed .
26- July 1996 – A incident of cloud burst at Raintoli village in Pithoragarh killed 16 villagers .
27 – 11 August 1998 – More than a dozen villages of Ukhimath region of Rudraprayag district badly hit by Cloud burst. A whole village was buried in a unprecedented landslide .109 people were killed .
28- 17 August 1998 – Massive landslide on the root of Kailash- Mansarovar buried 169 pilgrims.
29 – 27 July 2001 – Flashflood induced by a cloud burst killed 5 people in Khetgaon near Dharchula, Pithoragarh .
30 – 10 August 2002 – 29 people died due to different incidents of landslides in the villages of Balganga valley in Tehri Garhwal district .
31 – 2009 - More than 70 people died in separate incidents of landslides, flashflood all over Uttrakhand .

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