{"id":775,"date":"2022-04-21T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/?p=775"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:41:09","slug":"shtormmegi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/2022\/04\/21\/shtormmegi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Mega kills 224 people in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tropical Storm Mega made landfall on the islands of Samar, Biliran and Leyte in the eastern Philippines on April 10-12. As efforts continue to restore disaster-stricken areas, rescuers are finding more bodies, news agencies report.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cyclone spread to nine regions. More than 395.9 thousand people were moved to 909 evacuation centers, 33.4 thousand people were evacuated in advance. 8 people were injured by the disaster, 110 are listed as missing. The highest number of deaths was in the Eastern Visayas region &#8211; 156, with another 11 in the Western Visayas region, 3 in Davao and 2 in the Central Visayas region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, the death toll has risen to 224, more than 2 million people were affected by the disaster, according to a report by the Philippine National Council for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. According to the council&#8217;s report, 2,081,011 people were affected by the tropical storm, forcing more than 175,000 people to flee their homes. At the same time, 76 settlements are still experiencing power outages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Storm Mega damaged 9.7 thousand houses, the preliminary amount of damage was $13.5 thousand. 517 floods and 88 landslides were recorded. Damage to agriculture is estimated at $4.78 million. As a result of the disaster, 240 roads and nine bridges were damaged. Interruptions in electricity and water supply have been recorded. Mega damaged 10.5 thousand houses, 760 buildings were completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shtorm210422a-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\u0448\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043c\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shtorm210422a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shtorm210422a.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Mega made landfall on the islands of Samar, Biliran and Leyte in the eastern Philippines on April 10-12. As efforts continue to restore disaster-stricken areas, rescuers are finding more bodies, news agencies report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[335,336,337,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-128","8":"tag-flood","9":"tag-landslide","10":"tag-philippines","11":"tag-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}