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At least nine people were killed when a passenger motorboat capsized amid bad weather in the central Philippines on Thursday, local officials said.
It was the second motorboat to sink in the Philippines in three days.
The boat was battered by strong waves spawned by a tropical depression while on its way to an island off Concepcion...
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Floods and heavy rains in Vietnam have killed three more people and left two missing, disaster centres reported Tuesday, bringing the toll of dead and missing since the current round of storms began October 24 to at least 86.
The National Committee for Storm and Flood Control said the worst flooding in almost three decades has left at...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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The Chinese death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rose to 10 with at least two people still missing as the storm brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China, state media said on Thursday.
Floods, landslides and wind damage caused by the typhoon affected 8.73 million residents and 400,000 hectares of crops in Guangdong...
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 An “urgent red alert” was issued in China on Wednesday after a strong typhoon hit a widely populated area in the south of the country. The state Meteorological Administration issued the highest warning level for the calamity that hit China. The officials managed to evacuate more than 100,000 people before the typhoon, Hagupit, made its...
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At least one person died and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The island province of Hainan evacuated about 107,000 people from vulnerable areas while two cities in nearby Guangdong province moved more than 38,000 as the typhoon approached,...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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The Philippines on Tuesday braced for a typhoon that was expected to make landfall over the country's northernmost provinces, the weather bureau said.
Typhoon Nuri was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour as it bore down on the northern Philippines.
The weather bureau...
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Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain from tropical storm Kammuri killed 101 people and left 47 missing in northern Vietnam, officials said Monday.
Total damage in the nine provinces affected was estimated to be at least 720 billion dong (43 million dollars).
Floods and landslides washed away hundreds of kilometres of...
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 According to emergency officials, at least 6 people were killed and 6 others injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday. The Central Weather Bureau said Kalmaegi headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China Friday morning, with winds of 52 miles per hour. In the past 24 hours, parts of the south have recorded up to 44 inches...
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 Twelve people were reportedly killed while
more than 34,000 were displaced after Typhoon Halong hit the northern Phillippines
on Monday, about half of them pinned down by fallen trees or hit by flying
debris in the provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Zambales, the National
Disaster Coordinating Council reported.
One of the...
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 A new constitution had been overwhelming approved by voters
in last weekend’s referendum after the cyclone disaster that hit Burma, killing
more than 40,000 people.
The government portrayed the vote as a step toward democracy
and to promised multiparty elections from 2010.
The commission in charge of the Saturday referendum...
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 According to meteorologists, a tropical cyclone bearing down
on the South Pacific island nation of Fiji has intensified into a category four
storm, the second most powerful cyclone, with destructive winds up to 200 kph
(125 mph).
Cyclone Daman is expected to hit the nation's second largest island Vanua Levu
early on Saturday,...
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 A powerful typhoon skirted populated provinces in the eastern
Philippines on Saturday, where thousands of residents had been forced
to evacuate their homes to avoid the repeat of a disaster that killed
more than 1,000 people last year.
Typhoon Mitag veered away from its course before dawn on Saturday,
sparing the provinces of...
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 According to local officials, thousands of people are being
evacuated as tropical storm Mitag gains strength, becoming a typhoon as it
nears the eastern Philippines.
Mitag, packing winds of 120 kilometres per hour with gusts of 150km/h, was
barreling towards the Bicol peninsula, south-east of the capital Manila, the
local weather...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 A powerful tropical cyclone struck the southern Bangladesh coast
Thursday forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes
after the peripheral stormy winds sparked giant waves and floods on the
off-shore islands, officials said.
One million people living in fragile coastal villages were
evacuated to safe locations...
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After a massive typhoon hit Taiwan a couple of days ago
grounding more than 100 flights and causing floods in Taipei and power
blackouts for at least 170,000 households, China is forced to evacuate over 1.4
million people from two southeastern provinces and ordered 75,000 boats to
return to harbor as Typhoon Krosa slammed into...
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 According to Vietnamese government officials, three people died after Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam on Monday with speeds in excess of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, bringing massive floods and down poring precipitations.The storm caused communication breakdowns, knocking down telephone poles and power lines along with houses in Ha...
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 Much feared Typhoon Wipha hit the south coast of Shanghai early Wednesday
afternoon, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.
Although believed to be the strongest typhoon to hit shanghai in the past decade,
only one man was killed by electrocution during a power surge.
Shanghai, China's biggest city,...
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According to local officials, the fast-moving typhoon called
Nari has killed at least 14 people, injuring many more.
As it was moving on an eastern axis through the cities of South Korea
bringing with it heavy rain and floods, Typhoon Nari caused both local and international
flights to be grounded.
South
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is on alert after a powerful typhoon is threatening to hit by Friday. Flights
were grounded as the typhoon was expected to bring floods and landslides after
dumping heavy rains on central Japan.
Typhoon Fitow was near Hachijo
Island, 124 miles south of Tokyo, where towering
20-foot waves were reported. Although it is only a...
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 The powerful typhoon Man-yi lashed out at southern Japan on Saturday with strong winds and torrential rains, 44 people reportedly being injured and thousands displaced due to the intense storm.After ravaging the southernmost islands of Okinawa on Friday, the tropical storm struck Kyushu, the third-largest island of Japan and is moving...
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 The southern islands of Okinawa were struck Friday by a powerful typhoon, strong winds and torrential rains battering settlements and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes.Over 370 domestic flights were postponed and massive power cuts left about 100,000 inhabitants in the dark, 23 persons being injured by the tropical cyclone...
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 On Monday in Mexico, two of the major oil export ports were closed due to bad weather conditions brought about by Tropical Storm Arthur.As the wind got stronger and the sea roughened, the Department of Communications and Transportation of Mexico announced that the ports of Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas would be closed down. Pajaritos, the...
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 On Saturday, one day before the official start of the hurricane season, the first tropical storm of the year formed in the Belize region and it is now heading towards the mainland. Tropical Storm Arthur could come with up to 10 inches (125 to 250 millimeters) of rain in Guatemala and Belize and up to 15 inches (380 millimeters) of rain...
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 The death toll from tropical storm Olga climbed to more than 30 on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola, local newspaper reports said Friday.
Twelve Haitian seasonal workers drowned in flooding late Thursday
on the Dominican Republic side of the island, which has been drenched
by days of rain that unleashed mudslides and...
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 Tropical Storm Olga left at least 22 people dead in the Dominican
Republic and one dead in Haiti after drenching the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and moving west toward Cuba.
Dominican authorities said Thursday that 34,480 people had to be evacuated and 7,594 homes suffered damage.
The toll could rise. Dominican Republic...
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Subtropical Storm Laura formed in the north central Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Laura is centered at about 1,015 miles west of Faial Island in the Azores and was moving west-northwest at nearly 8 mph on Monday. The subtropical storm’s winds are near 60 mph and Laura can reach the strength of a hurricane on...
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 Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm of this year’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Kyle formed on Thursday as a terrible weather was announced in Puerto Rico and other northern Caribbean islands. Kyle reached to be a tropical storm when its winds reached 45mph.As a Category 1...
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 CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border and "large and dangerous battering waves" will be expected east of Hanna’s center.The coastal storm surge will reach 5 feet above...
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 Tropical Storm Gustav headed toward Cuba on Wednesday after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.Evacuations are possible for residents in New Orleans. People living in the area were...
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 On Wednesday, tropical storm Gustav headed toward Cuba after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.A meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Rebecca Waddington,...
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 The Atlantic hurricane season has come with its seventh tropical storm this year in central Caribbean. The storm is heading for the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Forecasters announced that the center of the storm was located at 260 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, at 11 a.m. on Monday.The National Hurricane Center said that...
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 Friday was the fifth day since tropical storm Fay established in Florida. Heavy rains and winds frightened the residents in the region. People in the Gulf Coast and other communities in the area had to be very careful about their staying in their homes. Two feet of rain drooped in Florida and spread to the central Atlantic coast.Fay is...
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 Heavy rain and winds came together with tropical storm Fay in the Florida Keys. Fay broke down trees and headed southwest Florida on Monday, after it had killed nearly 50 people in the Caribbean. This is the sixth storm this year in the Atlantic hurricane season and had hit Florida with winds reaching 60 mile per hour.Fay didn’t reach...
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 The Monday Texans’ preparations for the tropical storm were accompanied by a heat wave which has been lasting for 11 days. The tropical storm strengthened as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Galveston. Even if extreme weather is normal for the coast of Texas, the temperatures were too high.Residents bought more water and...
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Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
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Tropical storm Edouard triggered a hurricane
watch by US weather officials early Monday as it churned westward
toward Louisiana and Texas on the US Gulf coast. The National
Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a tropical storm warning for
Edouard westward from the mouth of the Mississippi River, near New
Orleans, with the...
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 Tropical Storm Edouard, the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season in Atlantic this year, has formed near an oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.By 11 p.m. EDT, the storm was located around 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was expected to come on the Texas coast being as...
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Tropical storm Dolly has formed on Wednesday in the Gulf Coast. It traversed the U.S.-Mexico coastline and weakened as it entered a tropical depression in South Texas on Thursday. Warnings have been made for a flood along the Rio Grande Valley.Flood warnings were available for Texas too. Charles Hoskins, deputy emergency officer for...
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After tropical storm Bertha and other storms that formed along the Atlantic and threatened the states around the ocean, another storm is expected this season, which has started earlier that it was scheduled. Hurricane Dolly heads for the United States, Caribbean and Central America these days.The hurricane season is scheduled to last...
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 Hurricane Bertha slowly approaches the Atlantic
Ocean on Friday. Officials in Bermuda
said that the hurricane advanced on the island with 85 mph winds. The hurricane
center advised those on the island to monitor Bertha’s progress closely.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest...
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 After strong winds had damaged several buildings in Central
US and more than a dozen people were injured in a pileup in Colorado,
the tornado moved to Central Arkansas.
In Little Rock,
Ark., a tornado destroyed a
hangar and several planes, injuring a number of people.
According to the Associated Press, after it hit Little...
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 Strong winds from what appeared to be a tornado damaged
several buildings on Central US. It killed one
person in a massive traffic pileup caused by the snow.
The Associated Press reports three people were taken to
hospital and treated for minor injuries after a strong storm flattened an
antique store and damaged a gas station in...
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 According to meteorologists, the path of Tropical Storm Noel had shifted enough to the west late Monday that forecasters may issue a tropical storm watch today for South Florida.Regardless of whether the storm's path continues to move west toward Florida, meteorologists say.South Florida trick or treaters should anticipate a wet and...
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According to local media reports, at least 13 people have
been killed in flooding in the Dominican
Republic following torrential rains dumped
by Tropical Storm Noel.
The deaths were reported in the Dominican capital Santo
Domingo, and along the south coast.
It is feared the death toll will rise, with several...
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 According to the National
Hurricane Center,
Hurricane Humberto hit Texas
sometime around 2pm local time as a category 1 storm. The storm current course
is heading north-northeast at a speed of 8 miles per hour. A decree in speed
and intensity is expected within the next 24 hours.
Even though the danger may be gone, a hurricane...
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 Tropical storm Gabrielle made landfall Sunday on North Carolina’s banks.
Although it brought winds of speeds in excess of 50 mph, this did not stop
beach-goers or surfers from enjoying every moment of it.
“It's a lot rougher out there, but this is what we look forward to every
year,” said Derek Creekmore, 32, of Chesapeake,
as he...
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 The east cost of the United
States of American, which includes also New York City,
could be hit by a potentially major tropical storm, which is currently brewing
out in the Atlantic Ocean. The weather
forecasters and the hurricane hunters have checked out the storm and have
characterized it as a low pressure system that is sitting...
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At least three people died, two were missing and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The typhoon destroyed 7,915 houses and affected some five million people in Guangdong province, where all the casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news...
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 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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According to officials, thousands of
workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm
Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday.
The tropical storm, which was upgraded to
typhoon level, brought heavy rain on central and southern Taiwan. The
National Fire Agency informs that up to 39 inches of rain fell in no more...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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 The new hurricane season starts with Boris and Bertha. Boris
passed without hurting anyone, but Bertha blew out suddenly. Boris erupted in
the Pacific and went to the western coast of Mexico and caused no damage.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest east that a tropical storm has...
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According to an infrared satellite image from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength
quickly.
Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on
the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane...
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This infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength in
a short time.
According to forecasters, Bertha is expected to become the
season's first hurricane. The tropical storm has sustained...
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 Central America and the Caribbean
have been under a meteorological threat since Sunday as Hurricane Felix is
quickly picking up the pace and turning into an unstoppable destructive force.
It has already reached category five which in plain talk means the most
powerful category of storm.
The whole process was also drastically...
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 Cyclone Gonu, the worst tropical storm to hit the Arabian Sea region made its first victims in Oman, three people being killed Thursday in the province that holds the country’s capital Muscat.According to a police official, the heavy rains and strong winds flooded numerous houses and took three lives until now, injuring nine persons....
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 The strongest tropical cyclone to hit the Arabian Sea region, Cyclone Gonu prompted Iran's Interior Ministry to declare an emergency state in the southern regions and evacuate hundreds in Chabahr on Wednesday.Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan, two southeastern coastline provinces have received warnings from Iran’s Department of...
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