Situation Overview The typhoon, known locally as Typhoon Karding, strengthened rapidly from Saturday to Sunday, arriving as a super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (about 150 miles per hour). Super Typhoon Karding made landfall on Burdeos, Quezon on Sunday afternoon, September 25, with maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h and...
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Typhoon Karding (I.N. Noru) Situation Report #1 September 25, 2022 5 PM
Situation Overview On September 22, The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) issued the first weather bulletin regarding Super Typhoon ‘NORU’. It was a low-pressure area spotted in the East of Central Luzon that turned into a tropical depression. It was named “Karding” with an international name “Noru”. At around 2:00 pm it...
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Philippine Disaster Report 2022
In the first semester of 2022, the Philippines experienced 587 disaster incidents, of which 36 events were related to natural, 231 human-induced, and 320 both natural and human-induced disasters. Overall, these claimed the lives of 9,576 across the country, affected more than 3.7 million people, displaced almost 1.18 million persons, and recorded approximately Php4.45 billion...
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Philippine Disaster Report 2021
In 2021, the Philippines experienced 80 disastrous events related to natural, 392 human-induced, and 548 both natural and disasters from human-induced hazards. Overall, these claimed the lives of 75,216 across the country, affected more than 20.5 million people, displaced over 5 million persons, and recorded approximately Php60.6 billion in economic losses. Disasters from natural causes...