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TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2009

TABLE 4.10    

DAMAGE CAUSED BY TROPICAL CYCLONES IN HONG KONG IN 2009

Name of
tropical
cyclone		 Month Damage in physical terms Damage in monetary terms (million HK$)
Agriculture Public works facilities Public utilities Property Landslip
and
collapse
of slope		 Agriculture Public
works facilities		 Public utilities Private property Others Total

Severe Tropical Storm Linfa
6

 

 

Water tank: 1 site

1 case

Tropical Storm Nangka
6

 

Road: 1 site

 

 

1 case

Typhoon Molave
7

Farmland:
219 hectares
Crops:
1,170 tons

7 units

1 case
18.25200
0.00312
18.25512

Severe Tropical Storm Goni
8

 

Road: 2 sites

 

 

3 cases

Tropical Storm Mujigae
9

 

 

 

1 unit

1 case

Typhoon Koppu
9

Farmland:
212.1
hectares
Crops:
1,320 tons
Fish:
0.6 tons

Road: 1 site 
Pedestrian
pavement:
1 site
Footpath &
access:
2 sites
Others:
2 sites

Railway:
2 sites

180 units

8 cases
20.59200
0.14102
0.03432
20.76734

Typhoon Ketsana
9

 

Footpath & access:
1 site

2 units

2 cases
N.B.:     Based on information supplied by relevant government departments and public utility companies. Damage reports in the local press were also examined and collated.

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