Residents in southern Kyushu were urgently advised to evacuate as a very powerful typhoon approached, leaving tens of thousands of buildings without power. The special warning for heavy rains was ...

Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly ... Dozens remain unaccounted for after the 33-storey building, which was under construction, gave way on Friday when a powerful earthquake ...

damaged and destroyed buildings, and trees and corrugated iron sheets strewn on the roads. "Pepito was so strong, I have never experienced a typhoon this strong," Robles said in a post ...

But what is a typhoon? Typhoons go by different names depending on where they occur: typhoons are over the Northwest Pacific Ocean; hurricanes are on the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific ...

Raging Typhoon No. 14 caused extensive damage in ... while 90 residential buildings in 12 prefectures were partially destroyed. Twenty houses were flooded in eight prefectures.

Peak gusts could hit 234 kilometers per hour in Okinawa, strong enough to make buildings collapse. The typhoon is also likely to bring torrential rain accompanied by lightning. In the 24-hour ...