Typhoon Noru battered northern provinces in the Philippines with severe wind and rain on Sunday, leaving at least five dead and thousands displaced.

Footage shows the storm pummeling houses in the island of Polillo in Quezon province, where it made landfall on September 25.

Noru, known locally as 'Karding,' was classified as a super typhoon after undergoing 'explosive intensification' overnight, packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometres per hour, state meteorologists said.

Noru made a second landfall in Aurora province in the evening before weakening and emerging over the country's western coast on September 26 morning.

The typhoon lashed the Philippines' largest island Luzon, leaving swathes of the heavily populated landmass submerged in flood.

In a press briefing on Monday, Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said some 74,000 people in the northern provinces were preemptively evacuated.

The national disaster council said in a Tuesday update that at least eight have been confirmed dead while three more are missing.

The Philippines, an archipelago of 7,600 islands, sits on the Pacific typhoon belt and sees an average of 20 storms yearly.