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.

The Cagayan Provincial Information Office said the house was empty as the homeowner was away in Tuguegarao City 26 miles away when the collapse occurred.

Philippine weather agency PAGASA said Toraji, locally called Nika, touched down in Dilasag town in northeastern Aurora province at 8:10 am local time on November 11, with sustained winds of up to 81 miles per hour.

Thousands of residents were forcibly evacuated from their homes in northern provinces which were ravaged by four cyclones in less than a month. Schools and government offices were also closed in areas expected to be hit hardest by the typhoon.

Toraji was downgraded into a severe tropical storm after travelling over the mountainous main island of Luzon and exiting into the South China Sea. It comes on the heels of three other cyclones that killed at least 159 people in recent weeks.

PAGASA said it was now monitoring Tropical Storm Usagi, which entered the Philippine storm monitoring zone at 3 am on November 12.

The Philippines experiences frequent and intense storms especially during the typhoon season from June to November, due to its location in the Pacific typhoon belt. These storms often bring heavy rain, strong winds, and flooding that cause significant damage to infrastructure, agriculture, and communities.