Typhoon strengthening as it nears the coast
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August 6, 2012, Monday
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TYPHOON strengthening as it nears the coast
Tyhoon Haikui has strengthened on its approach to the central coastal area of east China's Zhejiang Province, the National Meteorological Center said yesterday.
The center said Haikui entered the eastern part of the East China Sea around 5pm and was moving northwest at 15 kilometers per hour.
The Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters issued a level-four emergency response to the typhoon yesterday morning and released a notice in the afternoon asking flood relief and water conservancy departments to make full preparations against the typhoon.
Heavy rain which hit many areas in south and east China is set to continue until tomorrow.
Haikui follows twin typhoons Saola and Damrey which left eight people dead and another eight missing.
Downpours spawned by Typhoon Haikui will sweep parts of Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and Hainan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as well as southern parts of some central and northern provinces over the next few days, the center said.
The 11th typhoon of the year was about 200 kilometers from Japan's southernmost Okinawa prefecture early yesterday, and moving toward China's eastern coast at a speed of 20kph.
Damrey and Saola, which made landfall in east China on Friday, caused severe and widespread damage in seven provinces, mostly coastal, in China, the National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
The storms left eight people dead and eight missing and forced the evacuation of about 1.3 million residents in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hebei and Liaoning as of 9am yesterday, the ministry said.
China has launched relief operations in northeastern Liaoning Province and northern Hebei Province where millions of people were affected by floods caused by Typhoon Damrey.
The ministry said two teams had been sent to the flood-hit regions to coordinate relief work.
Nearly 1.46 million people in 10 cities in Liaoning were affected by heavy rains and floods, which left one person dead and five missing, according to the statement.
More than 10,000 houses collapsed and about 17,000 houses were damaged, forcing the evacuation of 138,000 people. Nearly 70,000 hectares of crops were damaged, with economic losses reaching 2.36 billion yuan (US$370.4 million).
In Hebei, about 2.33 million people were affected by the disaster, including one person who died, one who was missing and 151,000 who had to be relocated to safer areas.
About 9,400 houses were destroyed in the flooding.
In Shandong Province, which borders Hebei, Damrey affected more than 2 million people and left five people dead as of Saturday, according to the civil affairs department.
About 200,000 hectares of cropland were damaged, 1,718 houses collapsed and direct economic losses in the province totaled 1.69 billion yuan.
Shandong issued a three-level emergency response for the floods yesterday.
A flood-damaged section on the Wenzhou-Fuzhou Railway was repaired, forcing the suspension of 22 bullet trains yesterday, according to the Nanchang Railway Bureau.
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