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Affected countries: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
On 14 May, Cyclone Mahasen brought heavy rains and landslides to Sri Lanka, with seven people confirmed dead and 3,881 people displaced due to the resulting heavy rains and landslides. In Bangladesh, following the raising of warning signals to 7 from a possible 10 (expecting severe weather) for Cox...
Affected countries: Madagascar
Tropical Cyclone Haruna made landfall over the south-west coast of Madagascar on 22 Feb 2013 as a powerful category 2 cyclone. Before hitting Madagascar, Haruna vacillated for seven days in the Mozambique Channel, bringing above-normal rainfall to the western coast of Madagascar. More than 230% of...
Affected countries: Philippines
Tropical Depression Shanshan, locally known as Crising, passed just below the southern Philippines between 18-21 Feb 2013, affecting about 51,000 families (260,000 people) across eight regions, including areas still recovering from Typhoon Bopha. In central Mindanao, heavy rains triggered flooding...
Affected countries: Madagascar, Seychelles
Heavy rains brought by Tropical Cyclone Felleng on 27 Jan 2013 combined with a high tide resulted in severe flooding and caused extensive devastation to coastline areas and widespread structural damages to infrastructure, mostly in the eastern areas of Mahe Island of the Seychelles. Preliminary...
Affected countries: Philippines
Tropical Storm Wukong (Quinta) made landfall over Leyte in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines on 26 Dec 2012 and subsequently weakened to a tropical depression. As of 31 Dec, 20 deaths were reported and over 240,000 people were affected. Almost 58,000 people were served in 60 evacuation...
Affected countries: Fiji, Samoa, Wallis and Futuna (France)
Tropical Cyclone Evan (TD04F) passed over Samoa as a Category 2 tropical cyclone on 13-14 Dec 2012, damaging almost 1,000 houses and destroying almost 700. As of 3 Jan 2013, only 810 people remained in evacuation centers, down from over 7,000 immediate after the storm. (...
Affected countries: Palau, Philippines
Typhoon Bopha passed to the south of the larger islands in the Palau archipelago in the early morning of 3 Dec 2012 with winds of up to 250 km per hour, damaging and destroying buildings and infrastructure. The President declared a state of emergency. (...
Affected countries: China, Philippines, Viet Nam
Son-Tinh (Ofel) made landfall as a tropical storm in the Philippines on 25 Oct 2012, killing 27 people and destroying almost 200 houses (Govt., 29 Oct 2012). On 27 Oct, more than...
Affected countries: Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, United States of America
The eye of Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Kingston on Jamaica on 24 Oct 2012 and struck Cuba the next day.
In Cuba, over 194,767 homes were damaged and another 32,521 were destroyed, leaving thousands of people in need of shelter solutions. 11 people were killed. (...
Affected countries: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea
Typhoon Bolaven hit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 28 Aug 2012, worsening the extensive flooding caused by successive torrential rains and tropical storms since July. As of 3 Sep, 59 people had been killed, 5,766 houses had been destroyed or damaged and 2192 houses were submerged. Up...
Affected countries: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, United States of America
Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti on 25 Aug 2012, killing at least 19 people. 15,000 people had to be evacuated and 335 homes were destroyed. (AFP, 27 Aug 2012)
In the Dominican Republic, more than 4,700 houses were...
Affected countries: China, Philippines, Viet Nam
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak (Helen) made landfall in Isabela province on the northeastern coast of the Philippines on 15 Aug 2012, bringing heavy rains that caused flash floods and flooding. Seven people died, and more than 86,700 people have been affected. About 10,650 people took shelter in 77...
Affected countries: China
Typhoon Haikui, which made landfall in Zhejiang on 08 Aug 2012, has brought heavy downpours to east China and killed three people there. In neighboring Anhui province, the typhoon has left one person dead and forced 26,000 others to be evacuated.
In Zhejiang province, the typhoon has affected more...
Tropical Storm Ernesto killed 12 people in Mexico. Authorities in the state of Veracruz report 10,000 families affected in 57 municipalities. The state government requested a declaration of emergency for 163 municipalities because of damage to corn, bean and chayote crops. (...
Affected countries: China, China - Taiwan Province, Philippines
Tropical Storm Saola (Gener) turned into a typhoon on 30 Jul 2012. It did not strike the Philippines directly, but exacerbated a low pressure area in the vicinity, bringing several days of heavy continuous rains to large parts of the country (...
Affected countries: China, China - Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region), Viet Nam
Typhoon Vincent made landfall as a category 4 storm in the Quangdong province in southern China on 24 Jul 2012, killing three people, toppling 300 houses and damaging 13,600 hectares of crops (Xinhua,...
Affected countries: India
Following heavy monsoon rainfall, flooding affected communities across all 27 districts of Assam from 26 Jun 2012 onward. A total of 22 districts were severely impacted. Approximately 2.2
million people were affected with some 120 lives lost. (...
Affected countries: Mexico
About 12,000 families in the Coastal and South Sierra areas of Oaxaca were affected by Hurricane Carlotta, which made landfall on 15 Jun 2012 as a category one storm. At least seven people died, 29,000 houses were damaged, and more than 81 municipalities declared a state of emergency. (...
Affected countries: Madagascar, Mozambique
Tropical Storm Irina killed at least 65 people, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of Madagascar, and affected more than 70,000. (AFP, 06 Mar 2012)
In Mozambique, the storm passed the coastal areas of Gaza and Maputo...
Affected countries: Madagascar
Tropical cyclone Giovanna made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar on 14 February as
a category 4 tropical cyclone (UNCT, 14 Feb 2012).
Twelve days after the passing of cyclone Giovanna, 28 deaths have been reported, while the number
of people...
