Badai tropis yang melanda Myanmar, Minggu (4/5), termasuk bencana alam terbesar di Asia pasca-tsunami yang melanda Aceh (Indonesia) pada 26 Desember 2004. Berikut ini data bencana alam dengan korban besar di Asia sejak Desember 2004.
* Dec. 26, 2004 - ASIA - At least 230,000 people are killed and 43,000 missing after tsunami sparked by magnitude 9.15 quake smashes into 13 Indian Ocean countries. More than half the victims are Indonesians; with Sri Lanka and India next worst hit.
* March 28, 2005 - INDONESIA - Nearly 1,000 people are killed after a quake of magnitude 8.7 strikes the coast off Indonesian island of Sumatra.
* July/Aug - INDIA - More than 1,000 people are killed — mostly drowned and buried by landslides — after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded falls on western state of Maharashtra on July 26.
* Oct 8 - PAKISTAN - At least 73,320 people are killed by a 7.6 magnitude quake that strikes about 95 km (60 miles) northeast of Islamabad. The quake also rocks Indian Kashmir, killing 1,244 people.
* Feb. 17, 2006 - PHILIPPINES - Mudslide triggered by heavy rain buries nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines. About 140 bodies are recovered; rescuers give up hope of finding survivors.
* May 27 - INDONESIA - More than 5,700 people are killed when an earthquake centred just off the Indian Ocean coast hits the island of Java near Yogyakarta.
* June-July, 2007 - INDIAN SUBCONTINENT - Monsoon storms kill around 1,750 people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan. India is hardest hit with at least 750 people killed.
Nov 15 - BANGLADESH - Cyclone Sidr strikes Bangladesh, killing around 3,500 people.
* May 3/4, 2008 - MYANMAR - About 15,000 people are killed when Cyclone Nargis rips through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta.
Source: Reuters
