Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for KOMPASU-21
in Viet Nam, Laos, China, Philippines

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KOMPASU-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000839
Name KOMPASU-21
Glide number: CE-2021-000162-SOM
From - To 10 Oct - 14 Oct
Exposed countries Viet Nam, Laos, China, Philippines
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 2.4 m (13 Oct 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Vietnam)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 2.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 151 km/h 2.1 m 594 mm 0.5
GFS 119 km/h 2.4 m 688 mm 0.5
ECMWF 101 km/h 2.1 m 790 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Southeast Asia witnesses the worst traffic jam 10/18/2021 5:53:00 AM.

Typhoon Kompasu has resulted in the worst container shipping traffic jam in months, one that now stretches throughout Southeast Asia and may take weeks to unravel. Although port operations are largely back to normal in Shenzhen and Hong Kon
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Philippines: le bilan lié au typhon Kompasu grimpe à 40 morts Les inon.. 10/18/2021 12:06:00 AM.

Plus de 43.000 personnes ont été déplacées et près de 7.400 habitations ont été endommagées, a-t-elle poursuivi. La province d'Ilocos Sur, située dans le nord-ouest de l'île de Luçon et surprise par des inondations rapides, est la plus ende
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17/10/2021 - Meteo Cronaca DIRETTA: HONG KONG, il super tifone KOMPASU.. 10/17/2021 4:46:00 PM.

Meteo Cronaca DIRETTA: HONG KONG, il super tifone KOMPASU si abbatte con una forza inaudita. Il VIDEO è pazzesco. Meteo Cronaca DIRETTA: HONG KONG, il super tifone KOMPASU si abbatte con una forza inaudita. Il VIDEO è pazzesco. Il pot
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Philippines: le bilan lié au typhon Kompasu grimpe à 40 morts 10/17/2021 1:10:00 PM.

(Belga) Les inondations et glissements de terrain causés par le passage du typhon Kompasu ont causé la mort de 40 personnes aux Philippines, tandis que 18 autres sont encore portées disparues, a indiqué dimanche l'agence nationale des catas
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),