China Activates Emergency Responses Due to Typhoon Gaemi
Waves lash the shore in Sansha Township of Xiapu County, Fujian Province, July 26, 2024. Photo: X/ @Echinanews
July 26, 2024 Hour: 11:26 am
In Guangdong Province, nearly 70,000 residents had been evacuated in advance as of 8 a.m. Friday.
On Friday, Chinese provinces activated emergency responses and took measures including evacuating residents to battle Typhoon Gaemi, the third typhoon of this year.
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With a maximum wind speed of 118.8 km per hour at its center, the typhoon made its second landfall in the country on Thursday evening in Putian City in Fujian Province. At 6 a.m. on Friday, its center was located within the city of Sanming, packing winds of up to 100.8 km per hour near the center.
As of 6 a.m. Friday, about 628,600 people in Fujian had been affected by the typhoon, with some 290,000 residents temporarily relocated so far.
The typhoon is projected to move northwest at a speed of about 20 km per hour, with gradually weakening force, and is expected to reach Jiangxi Province around late Friday afternoon.
Affected by the typhoon, from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Friday, 72 townships in 15 county-level areas across Fujian recorded an accumulated precipitation of more than 250 millimeters, and 12 townships in nine county-level areas saw an accumulated precipitation of over 400 millimeters, with the highest reaching 512.8 millimeters.
Guangdong Province’s emergency department said that nearly 70,000 residents had been evacuated in advance as of 8 a.m. Friday, as heavy rains hit the eastern part of the province on Thursday and Friday.
The weather forecasts said the typhoon would affect Henan and Shandong provinces starting on Friday night, bringing rainstorms to many parts of the provinces.
To brace for the typhoon, the Henan provincial flood-control and drought-relief headquarters activated a Level-III emergency response for floods at 3 p.m. Friday, while the authorities in Shandong activated a Level-IV emergency response at 4 p.m. Friday. Both provinces issued a yellow alert for rainstorms.
China has a four-tier emergency response system for flood control, with Level I being the most urgent response, and a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Gaemi made its first landfall at around midnight Thursday in eastern Taiwan’s Yilan County, leaving three people dead and 380 injured.
Autor: teleSUR/ JF
Fuente: Xinhua
