Typhoon Chanchu

Chanchu was a strong typhoon that was created in May 2006 on the Philippine Sea and the Philippines and the South China Sea and China happened.

Course

On May 12, 2006, the storm was moving at a top speed of 160 km / h on the Philippine island of Visayas group, where there were some landslides due to the heavy rains. He then emigrated to the northwest in the South China Sea. Many bridges and roads were destroyed and heavily damaged. In some areas, people had no electricity for hours. Only in the Philippines called Chanchu the deaths of 37 people.

On May 17 he reached wind speeds of up to 250 km / h Vietnamese fishermen who fished located far from the mainland, were surprised by the typhoon. At least 28 Vietnamese are died at sea. On the same day he met on the Chinese mainland. Especially the Guangdong and Fujian provinces were affected, where it also came to landslides. Despite the precautions when 900,000 people were brought to safety in China, 23 people did not survive even here the typhoon. Skip over 20,000 houses were destroyed in the provinces. With winds of up to 170 km / h was even the strongest storm ever measured in May in this region. In the further course Chanchu weakened and brought Taiwan and Shanghai heavy rains.