Earthquakes, typhoons and monsoon rains cause yearly damage, and not just in Yushan National Park.
The royal visit was being marked by a fly-past of three Typhoons from RAF Leuchars.
He warned that the fund for emergencies such as typhoons and floods was practically empty.
The extra moisture in the air is thought to induce harsher droughts, stronger typhoons and more severe floods.
Typhoons or hurricanes have contaminated or destroy water delivery capabilities, as in New Orleans and elsewhere.
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Salter, an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, on developing a new approach for draining energy from hurricanes and typhoons.
They have plenty of experience coping with earthquakes and typhoons at home, and can mobilise legions of volunteers at short notice.
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He has been to many of the worst natural disasters in recent years -- earthquakes in Haiti and China, bush fires, floods and typhoons.
And let's just hope that the typhoons don't get any more powerful.
The Philippines is struck by several typhoons and tropical storms every year, but the south of the country usually escapes the worst damage.
While concrete events such as typhoons and snowstorms are faithfully recorded, less remarkable events are not, and there's little idea of gradual trends.
Typhoons aren't unusual in the Philippines, but this one is the most southern on record and it arrived particularly late in the year.
Let's not forget - the United Nations has estimated more than 220, 000 people have died in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and typhoons to date this year.
We've seen many hurricanes and typhoons and whatnot around the world.
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Last year another deal was agreed to supply 72 Eurofighter Typhoons and other services that may eventually be worth as much as the original Al Yamamah contract.
Deluges, hurricanes and other weather disasters are an annual occurrence: China will always have its floods, Bangladesh its cyclones, the Philippines its typhoons and America its tornadoes.
Public perceptions, shaped by headline-grabbing earthquakes, typhoons and periodic kidnappings mostly by Muslim extremists around the contested southern island of Mindanao have helped chill leisure travelers' enthusiasm for the island nation.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of the prime minister's National Security Council, he said that aircraft such as Tornados and Typhoons were vital, "despite what amateur theorists might assert from their armchairs", the Daily Telegraph reported.
The UN Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlstrom, said the disaster showed that more must be done "to ensure early warning systems are effective in an age when climate change is intensifying the impact of typhoons".
Disaster mitigation, through early tsunami warning systems, but also by quantifying the trends of typical marine hazards, including typhoons and storm surges, sea level rise, or harmful algal blooms, are critical objectives of ocean monitoring with immediate and sustainable impacts.
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