Talk:Coringa, Kakinada district

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I saw an extraordinary online claim of 40-foot surge, 300,000 deaths and 20,000 boats destroyed in 1839 for this city. I found several references of that period that date the event as Nov. 16 (not Nov. 25) and agree circa 20,000 dead. (One said 700 boats ... really? that far inland? let alone the "20,000 vessels" claimed by HBL) Removed the spectacular numbers, added cites and cleaned up the stub. I'm going to suggest rubber-stamp copying of sources that confuse Coringa 1839 with the 1737 Calcutta cyclone; some sources say -it also- had a 40-foot surge and 20,000 vessels destroyed and 300,000 dead. The linked WP article warns about the dubiousness of such numbers. Twang (talk) 10:49, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Tiny Village?
"Coringa is a tiny village of the East Godavari district, in Andhra Pradesh, India. In 1789, a cyclone hit Coringa. A strong storm surge resulting from it killed 20,000. On November 16, 1839 another disastrous cyclone struck east India with terrible winds and a giant storm surge. Once again Coringa suffered great damage. More than 300,000 people died."

Is that even possible? In the space of 50 years 320,000 people died in this tiny village! Off the top of my head I don't know how many people are required to make a town, but in the UK 320,000+ would be considered a medium to large sized town. Or is it more likely that the 320,000 people were killed in the whole of Andhra Pradesh? Kiltpin (talk) 11:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Tidied up
Tidied up spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax. --Kiltpin (talk) 10:12, 29 March 2015 (UTC)