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Typhoon Makes Landfall On Japanese Island Of Kyushu: Weather Office

August 28, 2024 admin

A major typhoon made landfall on Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu on Thursday morning. Tokyo: Typhoon Shanshan slammed into Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu early Thursday, with authorities advising thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges. The weather office said that Japan’s most powerful…

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7 Dead, 3 Missing After Heavy Rain, Floods Hit China: Report

July 30, 2024 admin

The rains damaged nearly 900 homes and caused 1,345 road collapse (File) Beijing, China: Seven people died and three were missing after heavy rain and flooding hit central China’s Hunan province, state media reported Tuesday. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains battering swathes of the country and many regions enduring…

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Daily Quiz | On scales that measure hurricanes

September 5, 2023 admin

Daily Quiz | On scales that measure hurricanes Representational image of waves crashing into a sea wall in England START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Name the wind-speed scale first developed in 1969, with modifications bringing it into its modern form in 1971, to assess the likely impact on low-cost housing of a storm…

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Typhoon Haikui Makes Landfall In Eastern Taiwan

September 3, 2023 admin

Across the island, more than 21,000 hosueholds lost power. Taitung, Taiwan: Typhoon Haikui made landfall on eastern Taiwan Sunday, unleashing torrential downpours, whipping winds and plunging thousands of households into darkness as the first major storm to directly hit the island in four years. Nearly 4,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas, hundreds of flights…

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Thousands Evacuated As Typhoon Haikui Heads For Taiwan

September 3, 2023 admin

Haikui is packing a sustained wind speed of about 140 kilometres per hour. Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas in eastern Taiwan ahead of Typhoon Haikui as authorities prepared Sunday for the first tropical storm to directly hit the island in four years. Haikui — which had already brought heavy rains by Sunday…

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