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  2. Effects of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season in the Philippines

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    This made Haiyan the strongest storm globally to make landfall, in terms of 1-minute sustained wind speeds, until the record was broken by Super Typhoon Rolly (Goni) 7 years later. Upon impact, the storm produced a large storm surge, which was a primary cause for the abnormally high death toll of nearly 7,000 people Haiyan caused in the ...

  3. Typhoon Haiyan - Wikipedia

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    Typhoon Haiyan has been acknowledged as a sort of "trauma milestone" for mental health awareness in the Philippines – where Filipinos had previously seen counseling as an admission of weakness, it began to be acknowledged as "a sign of how extraordinary the circumstances are." [166]

  4. Humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan - Wikipedia

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    This resulted to a record-breaking mapping updates response enabling over a million map updates in only a week after Haiyan's landfall. [114] The contributed mapping data enabled street-level accurate post-disaster maps on various islands in the Visayas region hit by typhoon Haiyan to OpenStreetMap.

  5. 2013 Pacific typhoon season - Wikipedia

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    The 2013 Pacific typhoon season was a devastating and catastrophic season that was the most active since 2004, and the deadliest since 1975. It featured Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms in history, as well as one of the strongest to make landfall on record. It featured 31 named storms, 13 typhoons, and five super typhoons.

  6. Tropical cyclones in 2013 - Wikipedia

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    Among them, Haiyan (far right; on the third row) was the most intense with minimum central pressure of 895 hPa Throughout 2013, 139 tropical cyclones formed in seven different areas called basins . Of these, 67 have been named by various weather agencies when they attained maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h , 40 mph ).

  7. Super Typhoon Yagi kills four in Vietnam after casualties in ...

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    Super Typhoon Yagi hit island districts of north Vietnam around 1 p.m. (0600 GMT), generating winds of up to 160 kph (99 mph) near its centre, having lost power from its peak of 234 kph (145 mph ...

  8. Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi: Worst climate disasters of ...

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    The climate crisis took a hefty economic toll in 2024, with just 10 disasters causing over $200bn in damage, according to a new report by Christian Aid.. The report, released on Monday, lists the ...

  9. Typhoon - Wikipedia

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    Since 2009 the Hong Kong Observatory has divided typhoons into three different classifications: typhoon, severe typhoon and super typhoon. [20] A typhoon has wind speed of 64–79 knots (73–91 mph; 118–149 km/h), a severe typhoon has winds of at least 80 knots (92 mph; 150 km/h), and a super typhoon has winds of at least 100 knots (120 mph ...