The Philippines is currently experiencing a typhoon that is producing tidal wave

The Philippines is currently experiencing a typhoon that is producing tidal waves and forcing a large number of people to relocate.


Philippines' Manila As the sixth big storm to hit the Philippines in less than a month, a strong typhoon ripped across the northern Philippines on Sunday, destroying homes, causing towering tidal surges, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to seek shelter in emergency shelters.
With sustained winds of up to 195 kilometres (125 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 240 kilometres per hour (149 miles per hour), Typhoon Man-yi made landfall in the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night. In provinces along its course, the nation's meteorology agency issued a warning about a "potentially catastrophic and life-threatening situation."The typhoon was expected to move northwest on Sunday across northern Luzon, the most populated area of the archipelago, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The metropolitan Manila capital area was placed under storm alert and warned of dangerous coastal storm surges, but it was likely to escape direct damage.

The Associated Press was contacted by Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation official in Catanduanes, who said, "The wind was very strong and had this eerie howling sound, but the rain was minimal." The tidal surges near the beachfront homes reached a height of over seven meters (23 feet) along a major boulevard here. It appeared to be quite frightening.

After the cyclone uprooted trees, the entire province of Catanduanes was without electricity and power poles, and disaster response teams were determining how many additional homes, beyond those affected by earlier storms, were damaged, he said "In addition to food, we require tin roofs and other building supplies. The villagers tell us here that they were pinned down by this typhoon once more and have yet to recover from the previous storm," Monterola said. Of the 80,000 residents of the island province, almost half were taking refuge in evacuation facilities.

As the hurricane drew closer, Catanduanes officials were so alarmed that they threatened to imprison vulnerable residents who disobeyed instructions to move to safer areas. Due to Man-yi and two prior storms, primarily in the northern Philippines, over 750,000 people sought shelter in emergency shelters, which included churches and a shopping mall, according to Assistant Secretary Cesar Idio of the Official of Civil Defence and other provincial officials.

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More than 160 people were killed and 9 million were impacted by the unusually high number of back-to-back storms and typhoons that pounded Luzon in just three weeks. The damage to residential areas, infrastructure, and farmlands was so severe that the Philippines might have to import more rice, a staple food for the majority of Filipinos. As Man-yi drew near, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called an emergency conference and instructed his Cabinet and provincial leaders to prepare for "the worst-case scenario."

According to the Philippine Coast Guard and the Civil Aviation Authority, strong waves caused at least 26 domestic airports and two international airports to temporarily close, as well as the suspension of inter-island ferry and freight services, leaving thousands of commuters and travellers stranded.

Manila's treaty ally, the United States, together with In order to support the government's overburdened disaster response organizations, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei contributed cargo planes and other forms of storm help. Trami, the first significant storm of the month, dumped one to two months' worth of rain in a single day in numerous places, killing dozens of people.

Approximately 20 typhoons and storms hit the Philippines annually. It boasts over a dozen active volcanoes and is frequently struck by earthquakes, making it one of the most disaster-prone places in the world.prone country

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