!\ !\ !\ !\ !\ TYPHOON MORAKOT As of 10 August, 2009 !( Tropical Storm Morakot was upgraded to a Typhoon on 5 Aug, Shanghai at 18hrs. It was then downgraded back to a Tropical Storm on Legend 7 Aug, at 18hrs. Hangzhou Source: GDACS !( !\! OCHA office or presence 10-Aug-09 !( Ningbo Jinhua !\ Country capital !( JAPAN !( Major town or city ZHEJIANG CHINA Morakot Storm Path TAIWAN PROVINCE OF CHINA Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan on 7-8 August causing severe flooding Morokat (Projected) 12 dead 52 missing States/Provinces affected Fuzhou 9-Aug-09 "Tens of Thousands" affected in Pingtung, Tainan, Chiayi, and !( Hualien counties. by Heavy Rains, Flooding, The military has been deployed to distribute food and water to or Landslides affected communities. FUJIAN Taipei Source: AFP !( Affected Countries 8-Aug-09 HUALIAN Map Doc Name: CHIAYI M o r a k o t OCHA_ROAP-Sitmap_Morakot 7-Aug-09 5-Aug-09 4-Aug-09 TAINAN GLIDE Number: (China) TC-2009-000150-TWN 6-Aug-09 (Philippines) FF-2009-000152-PHL PINGTUNG Creation Date: 6 Aug 2009 Projection/Datum: Behrmann HANOI Web Resources: http://ochaonline.un.org/roap !\ Nominal Scale at A4 paper size: 3-Aug-09 1:13,000,000 CHINA The approach of Tropical Storm Morakot has so far killed 1 child and caused the evacuation of more than 970,000 people in 0 250 500 Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. In Zhejiang approximately 35,000 ships have been called back from the sea, as the authorities issue a red alert (the highest) Kilometers In Fujian a cargo ship lost control and was blown onto a reef. P A C I F I C Coastal Aquifarms as well as supplies of vegetables and seafood have been affected. O C E A N !\ Shanghi and Anhui province are taking precautionary measures. Map data source(s): Source: Xinhua CAR UN Cartographic Section, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Discovery, GDACS, UNISYS REGION II PHILIPPINES Disclaimers: Typhoon Morakot has disrupted the normal monsoon rains causing The designations employed and the heavy flooding in parts of the Philippines. The affected areas were 93 presentation of material on this map do not baranguays of Region II, Region III, and the CAR. imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever 21 dead on the part of the Secretariat of the United REGION III 18 injured Nations concerning the legal status of any 7 missing !( country, territory, city or area or of its 16,722 families/83,450 people were affected authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its !\! Of these, 1,965 families/8.342 people were sent to 14 evacuation centers. S o u t h frontiers or boundaries. MANILA 29 houses damaged. C h i n a Source: Gov't !\! S e a !( VIET NAM PHILIPPINES CAMBODIA !\ PHILIPPINES !\ !\ !\ !\.