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A powerful typhoon slammed Okinawa and other islands in southwestern Japan Wednesday with high winds injuring more than 30 people as it moved west making its way toward mainland China. The Japan ...
A powerful typhoon approached Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa on Tuesday, lashing the region with strong winds and high waves and forcing transportation to halt and stores to close. It was ...
Typhoon Khanun (Thai: ขนุน), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Falcon, was a powerful, erratic and long-lived tropical cyclone that moved along Okinawa, Japan and the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in August 2023. It was the sixth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season.
August 1931 ― A typhoon impacts the southern Ryukyu islands, where it would kill 15 people and wreck 10,000 houses. The island of Ishigaki would record a minimum pressure of 986 mbar (29.1 inHg). August 24, 1931 ― A typhoon struck Okinawa with a minimum pressure of 963 mbar (28.4 inHg). September 1931 ― A typhoon strikes the island of Kyushu.
The Okinawa prefectural government said 47 people were injured, three of them seriously. Two deaths were being investigated as typhoon-related but are not included on the list of casualties.
The 2024 Pacific typhoon season was the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record. ... east-northeast of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. On June 6, ...
At least two people have died and 62 were injured in Okinawa and Kagoshima due to the once powerful typhoon, according to Reuters. Additionally, Khanun knocked out power for 30% of homes across ...
Photo of Typhoon Hinnamnor captured aboard the International Space Station as the typhoon was southeast of Okinawa on August 31. At 09:00 UTC, the JTWC upgraded Hinnamnor to a Category 1-equivalent typhoon, with maximum sustained winds of 75 knots (140 km/h; 85 mph). [15] Microwave imaging revealed a small, well-defined microwave eye feature. [15]