Typhoon Paeng (2022)
Definition
Typhoon Paeng, internationally designated Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae (2022), was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that lashed the Philippines in late October 2022 with heavy rains, causing flash floods and landslides across the Visayas, Luzon, and Bangsamoro region. The disaster killed more than 150 people, with the single worst tragedy a landslide that struck a coastal barangay in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.
Identities (Wikipedia/Wikidata/DBpedia)
| Source Type | Identity |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Tropical Storm Nalgae |
| Wikidata | Q114874666 |
| DBpedia | N/A |
Also Known As
Severe Tropical Storm Paeng; Typhoon Nalgae; Nalgae 2022; Bagyong Paeng.
Examples and Analogies
Paeng illustrated that a storm need not be a super typhoon to be deadly: its moderate winds concealed torrential, training rains, like a slowly overturned bucket that keeps refilling over the same slope, saturating soils until hillsides above coastal villages gave way.
Usage Scenarios
The storm informs landslide early-warning practice in the Bangsamoro region, barangay-level hazard mapping of coastal bluffs, flood-control planning around Cotabato and the Rio Grande de Mindanao, and risk-communication practice for slow-moving systems.
Strategies
Response combined preemptive evacuation of flood-prone barangays, class and work suspensions across many provinces, pre-positioned relief by DSWD and the BARMM ministries, and post-disaster relocation planning for the landslide-struck community.
Security and Safety Measures
MGB geohazard assessments flagged landslide-prone slopes in Maguindanao, the national government suspended mining and quarrying along affected rivers during the emergency, and rescue deployments included army brigades for the landslide site.
Historical Context
Nalgae formed west of the Pacific and crossed the archipelago in late October 2022, making multiple landfalls from the Visayas to Palawan while its rainbands trained over Mindanao; the Kusiong landslide in Datu Odin Sinsuat buried houses during a community clean-up, and floods swamped large areas of Cotabato and Maguindanao.
Challenges and Controversies
Questions followed on why the barangay below a known unstable slope was not evacuated earlier, on illegal quarrying and river-aggradation claims around Cotabato flooding, and on uneven warning reach in remote Bangsamoro communities; the name Paeng was afterwards retired from the Philippine naming lists.
Related Topic
Cotabato