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Typhoon Noul in China

Typhoon Noul has reportedly killed at least 10 people and prompted the evacuation of more than 715,000 residents in China.

Severity score

25.5

Limited · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

What this is

Typhoon Noul struck China with deadly winds and rain. The available report says at least 10 people were killed and more than 715,000 residents were evacuated.

Flights and high-speed rail services were disrupted. No supported monetary damage estimate is provided.

Score breakdown

Loss of life

5

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

39

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

30

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

18

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

55

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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