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Typhoon Ofel (international name: Usagi) swamped rural villages in floods, knocked down power and displaced thousands more people before blowing away on Friday from the northern Philippines.
The country has now been pounded by five major storms in less than a month.
A new storm in the Pacific has strengthened into a powerful typhoon (local name: Pepito) on Friday morning and it is set to hit the Philippine archipelago either on Saturday night or Sunday morning, according to state forecasters.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the onslaught caused by Ofel, which was blowing toward southern Taiwan on Friday.
In Cagayan province in the northernmost tip of the main Luzon region, a key concrete bridge connecting two towns partly collapsed Thursday after logs swept by rampaging river currents smashed into it.
Several other bridges were engulfed in floodwaters and were unusable, provincial officials said.
Ofel made landfall in the northeastern Philippines on Thursday, just two days after the last typhoon, Nika (international name: Toraji), exited after setting off floods and forcing more than 82,500 people to flee from their homes in northern provinces.
