This paper builds on the existing literature assessing retrospectively the quantitative effects of natural disasters on different dimensions of household welfare, to make progress toward the ex ante identification of households that are vulnerable to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is …
Tens of thousands of homes lost power across Taiwan on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Meranti hit the island, a storm seen as the strongest in the world so far this year, forcing schools and businesses to close and flights to be cancelled. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau warned that the Category …
South China's Guangdong Province issued warnings for super typhoon Meranti, which is expected to land in the east of Guangdong in three days. Typhoon Meranti strengthened into a super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. It will move at 20 to 25 kilometres per hour …
Research on typhoons has led scientists to believe that China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons. China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers today, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming. …
The upper depths of the oceans of the Earth have warmed significantly over the last 20 years causing an increase in the number of severe hurricanes, storm surges, loss of ice and change in global weather patterns, according to a new report. The report which was presented at the IUCN …
The destructive power of the typhoons that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines has intensified by 50% in the past 40 years due to warming seas, a new study has found. The researchers warn that global warming will lead the giant storms to become even stronger in …
Typhoon Namtheun made landfall in the city of Nagasaki early Monday, prompting the Meteorological Agency to warn of strong winds, heavy rain, mudslides and flooding, especially along river valleys. After making landfall shortly after 1 a.m., the typhoon moved over the northwestern part of Kyushu. By 9 a.m. it had …
The death toll from Typhoon Lionrock, which struck Japan on 29 August, has risen to 17 with several people still missing and a new tropical storm set to batter the southern islands. Officials announced on Sunday (4 September) that two more deaths have been confirmed on the main island of …
More than 100 flights were canceled and evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan's northeast on Tuesday, a region devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami five years ago. Typhoon Lionrock was expected to make landfall in the northeast Tohoku region later on …
The weather agency on Monday warned of heavy rain, strong wind and rough seas as Typhoon Lionrock swirled off Japan’s eastern coast. The storm was forecast to strike eastern or northern Japan, possibly the Tokyo region, early on Tuesday. As of Monday noon, the typhoon was moving over the Pacific …
Typhoon Mindulle lashed the greater Tokyo area on Monday, dumping heavy rain and leaving at least one person dead and 29 injured in storm-related incidents. Storm water coursed down usually placid rivers and left many streets flooded in the Kanto region. As of Monday evening the typhoon was heading north, …
Heavy rain drenched the Japanese capital on Monday as Typhoon Mindulle swept in, bringing floods that suspended train services and high winds that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. The category one typhoon, the weakest on a scale for storms, dumped more than 10 cm (4 inches) of rain …
At least 100 people have been injured and 400 homes destroyed after a tornado hit the Tembisa township in the East Rand, government has said. Speaking to PowerFM on Wednesday, Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, said it would take days before the full extent of the damage could be quantified. "Right …
More than 800 people have died and about 200 are missing in a series of natural disasters that have struck China since June, the worst casualty figures since a similar period in 2011, state media said on Tuesday. Large parts of central, eastern and northern China have been hit by …
Emergency services are warning residents to prepare for the worst as a category-five storm is expected to slam into Taiwan early on Friday morning. It is the country's worst flooding since 1998, killing 173 people, ruining farms and cutting major transportation arteries - and creating potential headwinds to economy growth. …
Nine people were killed and 18 are missing after wind and driving rain bought by the remains of super typhoon Nepartak swept into China over the weekend, the government said on Monday. The deaths were all in the southeastern province of Fujian, where the typhoon made landfall, the civil affairs …
AT least six people were dead and eight others missing after Typhoon Nepartak battered China’s east coast with heavy rain and strong winds that toppled homes and triggered landslides, officials in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces said yesterday. Fujian’s water resources department said more than 438,000 people had been relocated. Five …
Super typhoon Nepartak hit eastern Taiwan early on Friday, driving thousands of people from their homes, disrupting power supply and forcing the cancellation of more than 500 flights, emergency authorities said. Television broadcast images of strong wind and torrential rains brought by the year's first typhoon, whose approach had prompted …
NANJING -- The death toll has climbed to 99 after a fierce tornado and storm hit East China's Jiangsu Province, leaving 846 others injured, local authorities said Sunday. A powerful tornado and hailstorm pummelled the farmland and factories in Yancheng City, Jiangsu on Thursday, toppling houses, damaging wire poles and …
BEIJING — An unusually fierce tornado ravaged an eastern Chinese city on Thursday, killing at least 98 people and injuring 800 others, catapulting cars, ginkgo trees and cellphone towers through the air, and reducing homes to piles of debris, the authorities said. The storm in Yancheng, a city of 7.1 …
Maoist rebels in the Philippines exploited the havoc unleashed by a typhoon to attack an army relief convoy on Friday, authorities said, as the death toll from the storm rose to 41. Melor, a category 3 typhoon when it made landfall in the central Philippines this week, died out in …
