Cyclone Hagibis - Latest Current Affairs for Competitive Exams

Question: Cyclone Hagibis, which was recently in news affected-
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) Japan
(c) South Korea
(d) Madagascar
Answer: (b)
Related facts:

On 12th October large and powerful tropical cyclone Hagibis hit the Izu Peninsula in Japan.
It made landfall at as a Category 2–equivalent typhoon and the cyclone was considered to be the most devastating typhoon to hit the Kantō region of Japan since Ida in 1958.
Hagibis developed from a tropical wave located a couple hundred miles north of the Marshall Islands on 2nd October, 2019. The system reached tropical storm status late on 5th October as it travelled westward.
It should be noted that Hagibis caused additional impacts to Japan, after Faxai struck the same region one month before.
The nineteenth named storm and the ninth typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season, Hagibis underwent a period of rapid intensification, which brought it to its peak intensity on 7th October.
The typhoon disrupted power or water supply in a large area which made the situation worst for the people on the spot.
Although typhoons are not uncommon in Japan, Hagibis — which means speed in the Philippine language Tagalog — was particularly brutal, leading to the high death toll.