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...within 30 minutes. Ironically, it alerted Pacific countries to the latest tsunami, even though they were barely affected, yet failed to alert those countries most devastated. Tragically, due to technical constraints, the current system could have been used in the Indian Ocean if the threat had been from a typhoon, but it could not be used to warn about a tsunami. It is imperative that world leaders continue to support these aid and development initiatives, while at the same time ensuring that adequate information about these disasters is disseminated...
...Eastern Luzon is unlikely to recover so swiftly from the typhoon havoc of last week, because the disaster was only part natural-and largely the work of man. Two storms slammed in from the Philippine Sea, hitting the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila. Normally, the interior Sierra Madre mountains would block and tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind...
...trees, so they no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. When Typhoon Winnie hit the coast last Monday, said one resident: "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety, and cars, vans and jeeps were all washed away." By the time Typhoon Nanmadol, which hit land late Thursday, had moved away from the coast, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing. Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. Soldiers slogged through...
Japan is suffering from storm fatigue. Just days after drying out from Typhoon Ma-on, a storm billed as the east coast's worst in a decade, the country was slammed again by an even bigger beast last week?a 1,600-km-wide "megatyphoon" called Tokage (which means lizard in Japanese). Also known by its far less evocative moniker Typhoon No. 23, the killer storm cut an unprecedented path of destruction across three of the country's four major islands, registering record wind-speeds and rainfall, as well as storm damage and deaths not experienced in 25 years...
...first nine killed 102 people and caused $6.7 billion worth of damage, according to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki. Some meteorologists say the phenomenon is an inevitable by-product of global warming; others assert that the 10 storms were mere coincidence. Whatever the reason, Japan's season of the typhoon may not be over. Typhoon No. 24, known as Nock-ten, was gathering strength in the South Pacific late last week?and heading North...