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Total damage across the country stood at ₱20.2 billion (US$417 million). [1] The Cagayan Valley experienced the highest total amount of damage. At least 5,184,824 individuals were affected by the typhoon's onslaught. [1] The Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police reportedly rescued 265,339 and 104,850 individuals ...
Typhoon Nock-ten (Nina) nearing the Philippines as a Category 5 super typhoon in December 2016. The Philippines is archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,641 islands. The country is known to be "the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms", with about twenty tropical ...
The extent of damage in the Philippines was quite far, with the Boracay Airport being heavily damaged as many people were stranded in the airport as the typhoon struck. A disaster response officer also reported that power outages and damage in the town of Batad in Iloilo Province made it appear as a “ ghost town ”.
[4] [5] These included the Kamikaze, 1906 Hong Kong typhoon, 1922 Swatow typhoon and the 1934 Muroto typhoon. [ 6 ] The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Atlantic Ocean, after hurricanes Carol , Edna , and Hazel struck the Northeastern United States and caused a significant ...
The heavy rain caused Marikina River to swell, inundating areas also affected by Ketsana, triggering a landslide in the Commonwealth area, and collapsing the northbound Marcos Highway. Its damage was nearly as severe as Ketsana's, although the storm did not reach typhoon intensity when rains reached its peak on August 7. The floods and rain ...
A super typhoon ripped through Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause ...
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened entire villages and caused ships to run aground and smash into ...
The typhoon, locally known as Pepito, first made landfall on Saturday night on the coast of island province Catanduanes with winds up to 160 mph, which is the same as a Category 5 hurricane in the ...