A Survey on Disaster: Understanding the After-Effects of Super-Cyclone Amphan, the Helping Hand of Social Media

Poddar, Soham; Mondal, Mainack; Ghosh, Saptarshi; Jana, Arnab

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“…However, people found social media unreliable as it had spread rumors and misinformation about COVID-19 since the first case of the virus had been reported. Another study on cyclone Amphan by Poddar et al ( 2022 ) reported that 42% of respondents had received undesirable or harmful information from social media, including false news, rumors, superstitions, or political manifestos Evacuation decision A majority of the people (54.8%), who were aware of the COVID-19 risk, did not evacuate to cyclone shelters. These people decided to stay at home because fear of contracting COVID-19 from crowded shelters contributed to lowering the number of evacuees.…”

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Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

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Cyclone Amphan battered the coastal communities in the southwestern part of Bangladesh in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. These coastal communities were experiencing such a situation for the first time and faced the dilemma of whether to stay at home and embrace the cyclone or be exposed to the COVID-19 virus in the cyclone shelters by evacuating. This article intends to explore individuals’ decisions regarding whether to evacuate in response to cyclone Amphan and in light of the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, this study investigated evacuation behaviors among the households and explored the impacts of COVID-19 during the evacuation procedures. We conducted household surveys to collect primary information and undertook 378 samples for interviews at a precision level of 0.05 in fourteen villages. Despite the utmost effort of the government, the results demonstrated that 96.6% of people in the coastal area received a cyclone evacuation order before the cyclone’s landfall, and only 42% of people followed the evacuation order. The majority of households chose to stay at home because of fear of COVID-19 exposure in the crowded shelters. Although half of the evacuees were housed in cyclone shelters, COVID-19 preventive measures were apparently not set in place. Thus, this study will assist in crafting future government policies to enhance disaster evacuation plans by providing insights from the pandemic that can inform disaster management plans in the Global South.

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Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

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“…[18][19][20] Public health professionals and media (social, print, electronic) can closely work together to mitigate the after-effects of any disaster. [21][22][23] This study has filled the knowledge gap by identifying the perceptions and experiences of schoolchildren of Karachi about the APS attack, but what permanent effects such attacks will bring to their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral function as adults is still a question mark. Recall bias is a limitation of the study as the study started nine months post-APS attack.…”

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Army Public School Terrorist Attack - Perceptions and Experiences of school children of Karachi

Musharraf¹,

Baig²,

Baig³

2022

Pak J Med Sci

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Objectives: To explore the experiences and perceptions of school children of Karachi after the Army Public School (APS) attack. Methods: It was a qualitative transcendental phenomenological study. Data collection started nine months after the attack, in September 2015, and continued till November 2019. Study participants were school children from Army, Government, and Private schools. The sampling strategy was convenience. Data collection of 53 students was done by focus group discussions and in depth interviews. Data analysis was performed using the phenomenological analytical techniques of Colaizzi. Results: Inductive analysis of the qualitative data gave rise to three themes - The journey beyond fear, Response of parents and schools and Role of media. Conclusion: The study concluded that the APS attack was the source of emotional distress and fear for the school children of Karachi as they personalized the event due to the nature of the attack. Immediately after the incident, they were in anger, grief, and fear, which altered their daily life activities and caused apprehensions in socializing and attending school. However, later they became highly motivated to study and gained courage. This motivation is revenge from terrorists as they wanted to keep children away from schools. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.7.5596 How to cite this:Musharraf M, Baig LA, Baig ZA. Army Public School Terrorist Attack - Perceptions and Experiences of school children of Karachi. Pak J Med Sci. 2022;38(7):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.7.5596 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), it was a marginal cyclone that occurred in the BoB. The landfall of this cyclone occurred over Andhra Pradesh as a deep depression, causing major damage to agriculture [11][12][13]. This is the rarest cyclone to form in the month of May; its track and movement change from time to time and weaken within one day.…”

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Synoptic and Dynamical Characteristics of Severe Cyclonic Storm ASANI May 2022

Sunanda

Prayek²,

Naskar³

et al. 2023

IJECC

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The synoptic and dynamical conditions for the genesis and intensification of tropical cyclone Asani are clearly highlighted in the present paper. The observationally favourable conditions for the genesis of Asani are high SST, 200 hpa STWJ, and weak vertical shear of horizontal wind, which enhanced the convection and intensified the system. The SCS Asani entered a region with lower SST and lower ocean heat content, causing it to weaken into a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal before making landfall. Because of the anticyclone over Indian landmass, Asani remained within 50 km of the coastline for the entire day; as a result, the system moved slowly and remained nearly stationary. The slow movement led to upwelling of sea water and rainfall over the sea, leading to further cooling of the sea surface. There was also land interaction, thereby increasing friction for a longer period. There was a cold and dry air incursion from the Indian Land region in the middle and upper troposphere, leading to weakening.

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A Survey on Disaster: Understanding the After-Effects of Super-Cyclone Amphan, the Helping Hand of Social Media

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Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

Army Public School Terrorist Attack - Perceptions and Experiences of school children of Karachi

Synoptic and Dynamical Characteristics of Severe Cyclonic Storm ASANI May 2022

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