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Throughout both the Albay and Sorsogon provinces, four-fifths of all schools and half of all public infrastructure were destroyed. Elsewhere, in Boac, 80% of homes lost their roofs. In Bacacay, 18 of the village's 200 homes were destroyed. However, the capital city of Manila avoided the brunt of the typhoon. Throughout the Philippines ...
November 18–20, 2004: Typhoon Muifa (Unding) made landfall over Naga City. Torrential rainfall led to severe flooding in many places, mostly in Southern Luzon and in the Bicol Region . November 22–23, 2004: Tropical Storm Merbok (Violeta) brought heavy rainfall over much of Luzon . 31 people have been killed by the storm.
June 29–30, 1964: Typhoon Winnie (Dading) passes over Southern Luzon and Metro Manila, with Manila experiencing the worst typhoon since 1882.Approximately 500,000 people were rendered homeless in the Manila area and in the central provinces of Luzon following the razing of thousands of homes; [2] 10 people were killed by flooding in the capital. [3]
Typhoon Man-yi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pepito, was a powerful and long-tracked tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines in mid–November 2024. . Closely following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoons Kong-rey, Yinxing, Toraji and Usagi, Man-yi became the sixth and final consecutive tropical system to affect the country in less than a
Poverty incidence of Sorsogon City 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 23.60 2009 27.56 2012 19.51 2015 28.48 2018 18.07 2021 20.55 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Rizal Street in downtown area Sorsogon City is the economic center of Sorsogon Province and a hub of trade and commerce. It is one of the major cities in the Bicol Region after Naga City, Camarines Sur and Legazpi City in Albay. The city ...
Rainfall totals peaked at 565.9 mm (22.28 in), recorded at a weather station in Sorsogon. [11] Heavy rain caused 248 incidents of flooding in the Bicol Region and the Western Visayas. [27] Roughly 200 houses in Mandaue City were inundated. [24] The NDRRMC received 162 reports of damaged houses.
Typhoon Nock-ten, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Nina, was the strongest Christmas Day tropical cyclone worldwide in terms of 1-minute sustained winds. [1] [2] Forming as a tropical depression southeast of Yap and strengthening into the twenty-sixth tropical storm of the annual typhoon season on December 21, 2016, Nock-ten intensified into the thirteenth typhoon of the season on ...
Typhoon Kong-rey, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Leon, was a powerful and large tropical cyclone that impacted Taiwan and the Philippines before later affecting East China, South Korea, and Japan in late October and early November 2024.