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China, also affected by Typhoon Haiyan, donated US$200,000 to the Philippine relief effort. [33] China provided a donation of US$1.4 million worth of relief supplies. [34] China also sent its naval hospital ship Peace Ark. [35] Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung expressed his deepest sympathies for the typhoon victims. [36]
Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. Upon making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines . [ 1 ]
Leaving over 6,300 dead, 28,688 injured, and 1062 missing, Typhoon Haiyan is the deadliest typhoon on record in the Philippines. [24] More than 16 million people were affected by the storm, suffering from the storm surge, flash floods, landslides, and extreme winds and rainfall that took lives, destroyed homes, and devastated many.
In August 2006, Typhoon Saomai became the strongest typhoon on record to strike China, with a central pressure of 920 mbar (27 inHg) and winds of 215 km/h (134 mph) at its landfall in Zhejiang. It produced wind gusts of 293 km/h (182 mph) in Wenzhou. The typhoon killed 456 people and left more than US$4.2 billion in damage. [131]
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 ...
November 29–30, 2006: Typhoon Durian (Reming) badly impacts the Bicol Region as a Category 4 super typhoon. The typhoon caused massive loss of life when mudflows from the Mayon Volcano buried many villages. December 9–10, 2006: Typhoon Utor (Seniang) swept through much of Visayas. Only 38 people died from the typhoon.
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) -Southern Taiwan worked on Friday to clear up damage from flooding and high winds after Typhoon Krathon slammed into a major port city, while most of the rest of the ...
RADION has also been involved in short-term projects to disaster areas, like in Myanmar, Laos and The Philippines during Haiyan typhoon, RADION programs cover child rescue and protection, community development , disaster recovery , with the bulk of its work dedicated to aiding vulnerable and at-risk children, and looking upstream to strengthen ...