A river swollen from Typhoon Toraji rains swallowed homes in a northern province in the Philippines. Aerial footage shows the Cagayan River swallowing swathes of farm and residential land in Cagayan province on2.

Typhoon Toraji has unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea.

AccuWeather meteorologists say the Western Pacific Ocean is experiencing a surge in tropical activity this week, with four storms stretching from Vietnam to the Mariana Islands. As one typhoon makes its exit from the Philippines Monday,

Thousands of people sought shelter, ports were shut down and landslides blocked mountain roads in the Philippines on Monday, as the disaster-weary nation was struck by a fourth cyclone in less than a month.

Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday, as authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas.

This is the dramatic moment a concrete home collapsed into a river during Typhoon Toraji in the Philippines. The single-storey concrete house crumbled as the nearby river eroded its foundations in Baggao town in storm-battered Cagayan province on the evening of November 11.

Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea, officials said on Tuesday as they braced for another approaching storm.

Typhoon Toraji hit the northern part of the country, a region already devastated by floods and landslides from three other storms, on Monday.