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Typhoon Sarika, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Karen, was a powerful tropical cyclone which affected the Philippines, South China, and Vietnam in mid-October 2016. The twenty-first named storm and the tenth typhoon of the annual Pacific typhoon season, Sarika developed from a tropical disturbance east of the Philippines on October 13.
Typhoon Karen was the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike the island of Guam, and has been regarded as one of the most destructive events in the island's history. [1] It was first identified as a tropical disturbance on November 6, 1962, well to the southeast of Truk .
September 13, 2016: Typhoon Meranti (Ferdie) strikes the province of Batanes as a Category 5 super typhoon and passes by Itbayat. A state of calamity was declared in the province a few days later. October 14–15, 2016: Typhoon Sarika (Karen) impacts Central Luzon as a Category 4 typhoon.
After 2016, the PAGASA retired the name Karen in their naming lists and was replaced with Kristine. Typhoon Rananim (2004) (T0413, 16W, Karen), struck China; Typhoon Nuri (2008) (T0812, 13W, Karen), struck the Philippines and Hong Kong; Typhoon Sanba (2012) (T1216, 17W, Karen), Category 5 super typhoon that made landfall in South Korea
Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.
Super Typhoon Karen, widely regarded as the worst storm to ever hit the island, struck in 1962 with sustained winds of 172 mph. Though Guam sits in the West Pacific Ocean – an area prone to the ...
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