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　　How many deaths were caused by the Haiphong typhoon in 1881? The Haiphong typhoon in 1881 caused about 300,000 deaths.

　　What caused the high fatality rate of Typhoon Nina in 1975? Typhoon Nina caused dam failures in China, leading to massive flooding, famine, and epidemics, resulting in 171,000–220,000 deaths.

　　Which typhoon was the deadliest in Japan’s history? Super Typhoon Vera in 1959 was Japan’s deadliest typhoon, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless.

　　Tropical storms in the western North Pacific region around the Philippines, Japan, and China with sustained wind speeds of at least 74 mph (119 km/hr) are called typhoons. When the same phenomenon occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean and the eastern North Pacific, the resulting storm is called a hurricane, and when it occurs in the western South Pacific and Indian oceans, it is called a cyclone (though “tropical cyclone” is used as a generic term for all three). Apart from destructive winds, these storms often bring torrential rains and massive storm surges (which are created when a storm’s air-pressure ...(100 of 1117 words)

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