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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong typhoon made landfall on China's southeastern coast on Thursday evening after sweeping across the nearby island of Taiwan, where it caused landslides and flooding ...
The strongest typhoon in nearly 30 years slammed Taiwan on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and bringing the island to a near standstill as destructive winds and flooding rain lashed the ...
Typhoon Morakot, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kiko, was the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history.The eighth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Morakot wrought catastrophic damage in Taiwan, killing 673 people and leaving 26 people missing, and causing roughly NT$110 billion (US$3.3 billion) in damages.
Krathon, which refers to the santol fruit, was the first storm to make landfall on Taiwan's densely populated western plains since Typhoon Thelma in 1977. It was also the first storm to hit Kaohsiung in October and the first since Tropical Storm Trami in 2001 to weaken into a tropical depression
In July 2023, Typhoon Doksuri drifted to Southern Taiwan, raising warnings in various places. [21] 278,000 homes later lost power, [22] with one woman dying in Taiwan. [23] In August, Typhoon Haikui directly hit Taiwan, with 8,000 people evacuating. [24] 217,000 houses lost electricity with the typhoon, with multiple floods, and rainfall. [25]
A typhoon moving into China on Thursday unleashed severe flooding this week, killing more than a 20 people in the Philippines and Taiwan. According to Reuters, the typhoon, named Gaemi by Japan's ...
The government of Taiwan placed 29,000 military personnel on standby for recovery efforts. Over 2,000 residents of mountainous areas on the island were evacuated. [39] Evacuations also took place in Heping District, Taichung; 385 residents were evacuated from nine flood-prone districts of Tainan. [40]
Typhoon Haikui, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna, was the first major storm to hit Taiwan since Megi in 2016 and the first typhoon to do so since Nesat in 2017.It also caused serious rainfall in Hong Kong, making it the wettest tropical cyclone to affect the region.