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Typhoon Haiyan reached Hainan Province, where severe damage took place and six people were killed in various incidents. [96] The hardest hit area was Qionghai , where roughly 3,500 people across 20 villages were isolated due to extensive flooding.
On the eve of the typhoon, several members of the Philippine-American community in Chicago organized a group called "Help For Haiyan", which became the largest response by an entire U.S. city to help the victims of the typhoon. Over a thousand people volunteered every day for 2 weeks in the bitter cold making local headlines every day and over ...
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) on November 7, 2013, one of the strongest Pacific typhoons ever recorded.. Since 1947, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has classified all typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean with wind speeds of at least 130 knots (67 m/s; 150 mph; 240 km/h)—the equivalent of a strong Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, as super typhoons. [1]
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest on record, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened entire villages, swept ships inland and displaced more than 5 million in the central ...
[3] [15] The four lists of names are rotated every four years, with the names of significant tropical cyclones retired if they have caused at least ₱1 billion in damage and/or at least 300 deaths within the Philippines; [15] [16] replacements to retired names are taken from the agency's list of reserved names. [15]
The typhoon was known for capsizing the ship MV Princess of the Stars, which killed 814 of the 922 people on board. 557 people were dead in the country excluding the deaths from the capsized ship. July 4, 2008: Tropical Depression Gener produced 13 mm (0.51 in) of rainfall over the Ilocos Region .
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 ...
That super typhoon killed at least 62 people across Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, causing more than 38 billion yuan ($5.3 billion) in direct economic losses.