Date: January 2011 Abnormally heavy rains brought by the northeast monsoon to parts of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao triggered heavy flooding and a series of landslides across 25 provinces in 10 regions. Close to two million people were affected by the crisis and 40...
Date: 27 September – 14 October 2009 Category: 4 (Severe Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Parma was the second typhoon to hit the Philippines in the period of a week in September/October 2009, adding to the damage caused by Typhoon Ketsana. Relief teams, already...
Date: 26 September 2009 Category: 2 (Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Ketsana was the second most devastating tropical cyclone in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season. Known as Ondoy in the Philippines, the typhoon dropped 455mm of rain in just 24 hours – the highest...
Date: 2 – 11 August 2009 Category: 2 (Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Morakot was one of the deadliest storms to hit East Asia in 2009, with Mainland China, Taiwan and the Philippines worst affected. In the Filipino municipality of Botolan in Zambales Province and...
Date: 30 November – 9 December 2006 Typhoon Durian: Category 4 (Severe Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Utor: Category 4 (Severe Tropical Cyclone) Central Philippines (Legazpi City, Albay and the Bicol Region) was hit by Typhoon Durian in late November and then blasted...
Date: November 2004 Category: 4 (Severe Tropical Cyclone) In November 2004, two tropical storms (Merbok and Winnie) and Typhoon Namadol battered Quezon province with intense rainfall and winds, triggering floods. More than 2,000 people were killed and thousands...