Powerful Cyclone Nargis made landfall this past weekend (May 3 and 4, 2008) in Myanmar. Cyclone Nargis is the deadliest cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people perished in Bangladesh from a land-falling cyclone that year.

The Associated Press noted that a Myanmar state-run radio station reported on May 5, that more than 22,464 people were confirmed dead, and thousands were missing. The United Nations estimates up to a million could be homeless. (Excerpt from the NASA Home Page. Click "More" to view additional Information)

Related Links:

NASA Satellite Captures Image of Cyclone Nargis Flooding in Burma

NASA Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Images
http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/nargis_over_myanmar.kml [KML, View in Google Earth]

MODIS Raid Response System
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_Myanmar

Earth Observatory "Natural Hazards"

Dartmouth Flood Observatory Map of flooding in Burma from Cyclone Nargis

New York Times DOT Earth Report: "Myanmar’s Cyclone Catastrophe"

1. NASA Hurricane Viewer

2. East Asia Coastal Cyclone

3. The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Server (OSEI)

4. MODIS Rapid Response System

5. Global Consolidated Tropical Cyclone Data (DSI-9636)

6. Monthly East Pacific Oscillation (EPO) from NOAA/Climate Prediction Center

7. NASA's Earth Observatory - Natural Hazards

8. Center for Hazards and Research Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis report

9. Center for Hazards and Research Natural Disaster Profiles for Indian Ocean Countries

10. JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclones database

11. Global Cyclone Hazard Frequency and Distribution

12. Global Tropical Cyclones - ISCCP B1 Satellite Observations (DS-3641)