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The Tacloban government spent ₱2.8 million for the conversion of the bow to a memorial park, a process which took five months. [8] The park was inaugurated on November 7, 2015 on the eve of the second anniversary of the Typhoon Haiyan tragedy. [1] [2]
Haiyan was last noted as a tropical depression by the JMA on the following day. The first warning noted for Haiyan was in November 3, when a storm warning arose in the Federated States of Micronesia, specifically in the Chuuk Lagoon, Losap, and Poluwat, gradually expanding to other towns as well. Warnings rose for a second time in Micronesia ...
From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,000 people; the streak from the Chelyabinsk meteor that rocketed across the Russian morning sky; protests occur amid the coup d'état that overthrew ...
Admittedly, my Facebook vacation had been in the works for a while before I closed the tab on my laptop. After slogging through what felt like an onslaught of political memes and angry screeds, I ...
November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda), the deadliest Philippine typhoon [41] [42] on record, causes catastrophic destruction in the Visayas, particularly on the islands of Samar and Leyte, killing 6,300 people. About 11 million people have been affected by the typhoon with many left homeless.
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 and took the company public in 2012. In November 2021, Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. The company owns Instagram , its flagship ...
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.
Rihanna, who hasn’t released a new album since 2016’s Anti, was spotted heading into a recording studio in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 18.. Now, some fans of the nine-time Grammy winner ...