{"id":58978,"date":"2023-10-05T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/05\/typhoon-koinu-taiwan-record-powerful-wind"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:25:07","slug":"taiwan-records-worlds-third-most-powerful-wind-gust-ever-as-typhoon-koinu-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58978","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan records world\u2019s third most powerful wind gust ever as Typhoon Koinu hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windspeed measuring device was destroyed as category four cyclone hit, injuring nearly 200 and creating waves up to seven metres high<\/p>\n<p>A category four cyclone has produced one of the strongest wind gusts ever recorded worldwide, and injured almost 200 people as it crossed the southern tip of Taiwan early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Koinu brought wind gusts of up to 95.2 metres per second, or 342.7km\/h (212.9mph) when it crossed Taiwan\u2019s outer Lanyu (Orchid) island on Wednesday night. The Central Weather Administration (CWA) told the Guardian it was the highest wind gust recorded in Taiwan since the organisation was founded in 1986. The gust destroyed the island\u2019s anemometer, the CWA said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/05\/typhoon-koinu-taiwan-record-powerful-wind\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windspeed measuring device was destroyed as category four cyclone hit, injuring nearly 200 and creating waves up to seven metres highA category four cyclone has produced one of the strongest wind gusts ever recorded worldwide, and injured almost 200 pe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58979,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978\/revisions\/58979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}