Typhoon Xangsane

Today the school building is a half-abandoned shell, after it was partly destroyed by torrential rains that accompanied Typhoon Xangsane in late October 2000. A huge mudslide swept down the valley, wiping out many houses, killing several residents and severely damaging the school. Follow the road up ...

1994 - More than 500 people were killed in southern Egypt, most of them when blazing fuel flooded into a village from a depot struck by lightning. Lightning struck the complex of eight fuel tanks towards the end of a thunderstorm that raged across much of Egypt for up to five hours. Three of the storage tanks ...

However, two seed banks in Afghanistan were looted for the plastic containers in which the seeds were kept, one of the Vavilov Institute facilities has suffered flooding, and another bank in the Philippines was destroyed by typhoon Xangsane. Because seed banks are being lost to these types of threat – not ...

According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration 3 Nock-Ten (Nina) (PAGASA), the Philippines is prone to tropical cyclones due to its geographical location which generally produce heavy rains, flooding of large areas and also strong winds which result in ...

Typhoon Xangsane caused extensive flooding and 71 deaths in Vietnam. Reynolds was shocked to see the damage, especially from the storm surge, which had dumped sand over the main coastal highway. Walking through knee-deep floodwaters, he filmed a row of seafront buildings that had collapsed ...

Thousands of people living in coastal areas of the Philippines are evacuating as the first major storm of the rainy season barrels towards the archipelago. Typhoon Rammasun is expected to make landfall tonight in the eastern Philippines, and pass over the capital Manila of more than 12 million people.

The number of people made homeless in the Philippines by a devastating typhoon rose to 1.9 million, up from 900,000, the United Nations' humanitarian agency said on Saturday, as international aid continues to arrive. In Tacloban, at least 56,000 people face unsanitary conditions, according to the United ...

At least 15 people in Vietnam are now known to have died as a result of Typhoon Xangsane, which buffeted central provinces over the weekend. The coastal city of Danang was hardest hit, with hundreds of people injured and thousands of homes destroyed. The typhoon devastated areas of the Philippines ...

Officials said the storm was the worst to strike since Typhoon Xangsane raked the region in 2006, killing 250 people. The lack of such significant fatalities from Nari is being credited to the evacuation of more than 120,000 people into makeshift shelters and public buildings before the storm arrived. But Nari ...