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 …
Emergency services and residents in the Philippine capital cleaned up and restored electricity Wednesday after a powerful typhoon unleashed floodwaters and fierce wind that killed at least 20 people and sent huge waves crashing over seawalls. Most deaths occurred in and around metropolitan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy …
Philippine authorities said Thursday that the death toll from Typhoon Nesat had risen to 35, and would likely climb further with dozens of others missing two days after the storm walloped the country. Office of Civil Defense administrator Benito Ramos said that flood waters had been slowly subsiding, although large …
Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters and dodged flying debris on Tuesday as a powerful typhoon struck the Philippines, killing at least 12 people and sending waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls. Most deaths occurred in metropolitan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy monsoon rains ahead …
A powerful typhoon that barrelled through Japan and threatened the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant killed at least 11 people including a woman aged 101, officials and reports said Thursday. Typhoon Roke, which churned across the main island of Honshu and through the already disaster-ravaged northeast, caused flooding and triggered …
A powerful typhoon struck Japan’s main island on Wednesday, stranding thousands of commuters in Tokyo and poured heavy rain on the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the nation’s tsunami-ravaged northeast. Typhoon-powered waves exploded against a breakwater in Kiho in central Japan on Wednesday. Evacuation advisories went out to more …
More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides. In Nagoya in central Japan's Aichi prefecture about 1.1 million people were urged to evacuate, while other cities in western Japan also issued …
A leading disaster watchdog has ranked Bangladesh as the world's sixth "high disaster risk country" in terms of its exposure to typhoons, earthquake and tsunamis. The German-based United Nations University (UNU) Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in its 'World Risk Report-2011' said Bangladesh ranked second in its risk …
Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan Tuesday as the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 42, heaping more misery on a nation recovering from the March earthquake and tsunami. Torrential rain brought by powerful Typhoon Talas, which made landfall Saturday and was the deadliest in seven …
Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas killed at least 27 people in Japan as the storm moved northward past the country Sunday. Scores more are missing, local media said. Evacuation orders and advisories have been issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan, Kyodo News agency reported. …
A typhoon that pummelled western Japan left at least 20 people dead and more than 50 missing, said reports on Sunday, after swollen rivers swept away buildings and landslips crushed houses. One of the victims drowned after flood waters gushed into his car and streets were submerged in scenes that …
Tropical storm Nanmadol headed for China on Monday, losing strength after drenching southern and eastern Taiwan, forcing evacuations, shutting businesses, disrupting transport but causing no major damage. The storm, downgraded from a typhoon on Monday, was the first of the season to land in Taiwan and killed at least one …
Typhoon Nanmadol began blowing toward Taiwan on Sunday after leaving at least 10 people dead and scuttling a visit by a U.S. Navy carrier group in the Philippines, officials said. Taiwan issued sea and land warnings and planned to evacuate about 6,000 people in its eastern and southern regions as …
A storm battering the northeast Chinese coast on Monday whipped up waves that threatened a dyke protecting a chemical plant, forcing residents to flee while soldiers and firefighters rushed to fill the breaches, news media said. The waves slamming the coast near the port city of Dalian in Liaoning province …
China evacuated more than 200,000 people on its east coast and cancelled nearly 200 flights yesterday in preparation for the most powerful typhoon to hit the country in years. Typhoon Muifa, which was packing winds of up to 162 kilometres per hour, is expected to make landfall on China's east …
More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have evacuated and thousands of ships were called back to shore Saturday as Typhoon Muifa bore down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Zhejiang province moved just over 200,000 people from its coastal areas while an additional 80,400 …
A powerful typhoon is blowing away from the northern Philippines after leaving at least four people dead despite not making landfall. Office of Civil Defense chief Benito Ramos says slow-moving Typhoon Muifa was packing sustained winds of 108 miles (175 kilometers) per hour and gusts of 130 mph (210 kph) …
Dozens of people were injured and more than 100 flights cancelled as strong Typhoon Ma-On lashed southern Japan Wednesday with torrential downpours and gale-force winds, meteorologists and reports said. Packing gusts of up to 180 kilometres (112 miles) per hour, the storm made landfall over southwestern Shikoku late Tuesday, bringing …
Luong Quang Huy describes a participatory research approach designed to empower local communities in adapting to socio-economic trends and climate change. The project resulted in a framework that encouraged local communities to use reflexively what they already have, such as their knowledge and connections, and to apply critical thinking on …
Climate controls landscape evolution, but quantitative signatures of climatic drivers have yet to be found in topography on a broad scale. Here we describe how a topographic signature of typhoon rainfall is recorded in the meandering of incising mountain rivers in the western North Pacific. Spatially averaged river sinuosity generated …
With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands on Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake wiped out four hamlets in western Indonesia. Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the villages in Padang …
