Comparative Study of Hazards by Floods and Cyclones in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is one of the most natural disaster prone countries in the World. Most of the disasters are water related such as flood, cyclone, drought, river erosion etc. Almost every year the country faces severe catastrophic natural hazards. This study is conducted in July 2010 to find and compare property and live losses in major floods and cyclone. From 1987 to present, average yearly death loss is 283 persons and property loss is $377 million USD by major floods. But strong cyclone from 1970 to 2010, average yearly death loss is 19500 persons and property loss is $366 million USD. Cyclone causes huge scale yearly live loss compared to floods while average property are near about to same by these two natural disaster.