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Super Typhoon Zeb (international designation: 9810, JTWC designation: 18W, PAGASA name: Typhoon...

Super Typhoon Zeb (international designation: 9810, JTWC designation: 18W, PAGASA name: Typhoon Iliang) was a very powerful Category 5 typhoon with a minimum central pressure reading of 872 millibars and 180 mph sustained winds, making it one of five Pacific storms tied for the second most intense tropical cyclone on record. Zeb formed out of a low pressure system that emerged from a monsoon trough. The low then became a tropical depression south of Guam. On October 10, the system reached tropical storm strength and was named Zeb. Zeb then moved westward before reaching typhoon status northwest of Palau. Overnight, the storm explosively intensified from a 70 mph tropical storm to a 180 mph supertyphoon on the 13th. While maintaining its strength, Zeb made landfall on the island of Luzon. Zeb then turned a north-northwesterly course while weakening to a category 2 storm. Zeb then later recurved and brushed past Taiwan before accelerating towards Japan on the 17th. Now downgraded to a tropical storm, Zeb struck the islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku before merging with a cold front on the 18th. During its life it also absorbed Tropical Storm Alex. 83 people died in the Philippines and