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Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette 2013-09-20 0

Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette hitting Batanes tonight

Typhoon USAGI / Odette  as an extremely dangerous Category 5 Super Typhoon endangers extreme Northern Luzon and Southern Taiwan particularly the Batanes Islands. Outer rainbands now spreading across all Northern Luzon. PAGASA has now declared...

Habagat 2013-09-20 0

Extremely strong Habagat

Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette enhances the sout-west monsoon (Habagt). Strong winds with gusts up to 80 km/h and occasionally strong rainfalls haunt the whole west coast  of the Philippines. At our beach in...

Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette 2013-09-20 0

Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette is now Category 5

At 4:00 a.m. today, the eye of Super Typhoon USAGI / Odette was located at  410 km East of Aparri, Cagayan  (18.9°N, 126.0°E). Maximum sustained winds are 220 km/h near the center and gustiness is up to...

Typhoon USAGI / Odette 2013-09-19 0

Typhoon – Habagat – Full Moon: too much!

At 4:00 PM today, the eye of Typhoon USAGI / Odette was located at 570 km East of Tuguegarao City (17.8°N / 127.7°E). Maximum sustained winds are 220 km/h near the center and gustiness is up to...

Typhoon USAGI / Odette 2013-09-19 at 08:00 a.m. PST 0

Typhoon USAGI / Odette upgraded to Category 2

Typhoon USAGI / Odette is now a Category 2 Typhoon after it rapidly intensified overnight while over the Philippine Sea. The storm also increased its forward speed to 15 km/h in direction west-southwest. CAUTION: This typhoon will...

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Propeller exploded? Explosive propellers?

ABS-CBN reported at 1:51 p.m. today: “A Philippine Airlines flight from Davao City was delayed after its right engine propeller exploded Tuesday night. Because of the delay, PAL checked in its 30 passengers bound...

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Cyclone USAGI / Odette upgraded to Tropical Storm

Cyclone USAGI / Odette has intensified and has been upgraded to a Tropical Storm. At 10:00 a.m. today, the center of Tropical Storm “ODETTE” was estimated  at 820 km East of Tuguegarao City (17.6° N, 130.5°...

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Philippines Tourists Information

The Bureau of Immigration has released a flyer with information about Visa, Exit Clearance Certificate and Procedures: That’s nothing new but is worth to publish again and again. Short time tourists up to 59...

Miss Mambajao 2013 0

Camiguin is beautiful – really!

Yesterday evening the national highway in Mambajao, Camiguin had been blocked by a really beautiful scene. The most beautiful girls of the island’s capital competed to become Miss Mambajao 2013. It’s really more fun...

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Camiguin moves ahead

It’s been 10 days of fiesta in Mambajao, the capital of Camiguin Island and Province. There had been a lot of amusement, a lot of sports, a lot of beautiful girls and a lot...

Earthquake 2013-09-06 0

Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake in the Batanes Islands

Yesterday evening at 07:33:53 p.m. a Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake shook the Batanes Group of Islands between Luzon and Taiwan. The Focus of the earthquake was in a depth of 183 km. In  Uyugan the quake was...

Luzon Dam Status 2013-09-04 at 06:00 a.m. 0

Luzon Dams again under control

Of the 9 dams in Luzon, 8 have closed their gates. Their water levels are between 10 centimeters overflow (Magat dam) and 18.9 meters below overflow (Pantabagan dam). We therefore did remove our flood...

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