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Typhoon Sudal hits
Phillipines
12 Аpril 2004
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on
board NASA’s Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon
Sudal off the Philippines on April 12 at 2:10 UTC. At the time this image
was taken Sudal was packing sustained winds of 132 mph with gusts to 146
mph and moving towards the northwest at 6 mph.
Several days earlier, the storm had lashed the state of Yap—one of the
four states of the Federated Islands of Micronesia, located just over
1,000 kilometers (over 620 miles) east of the Philippines—on its way
westward through the South Pacific Ocean. After being pummeled by winds
over 120 mph for several hours, the islands and atolls that make up the
state are now being designated a disaster area
Source: NASA Earth
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