Key Stats
These stats will highlight the impact of Typhoon Morakot.
Life:
- Taiwan: 103 killed, 35 injured, 800+ missing, 750,000 without clean water. 3.9 million chickens and 82,630 pigs are also thought to have perished in the floods.
- Philippines: 24 individuals are reported dead
- China: 1.4 million people were relocated, 9 million people were impacted, 6 people were killed and 3 are missing
Economic:
- 6,000 houses and 387,300 hectares of farmland were destroyed in China with a direct economic loss of $1.3 billion
- Agricultural losses from Typhoon Morakot had soared to NT$4.2 billion (US$128 million) as of Sunday night
- 25 percent of the crops on 20, 432 hectares of farmland were lost. Banana crops suffered the heaviest damage, with 3.218 hectares ravaged by strong winds and flooding.
- NT$343.13 million worth of poultry perished in floods caused by the storm
- Losses in the aquaculture sector totaled NT$206.712 million, with at least 107 hectares of fish farms in Pingtung County’s Jiadong and Gaoshu townships damaged
- Damage to agricultural facilities amounted to NT$107.51 million
- Damage to forestry was estimated at NT$10.63 million
Sources:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/08/10/219779/Agricultural-losses.htm
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/529033/cs/1/
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1070112/One-million-flee-China-typhoon
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4rGseWOgSKQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/taiwan/6003259/Typhoon-Morakot-sparks-exodus-up-to-1000-missing-in-Taiwan-landslide.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/10/content_8551811.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/08/10/storms.asia/
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3892017-typhoon-morakot-kills-62-injures-35-in-taiwan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6793989.ece
