Storm Ragasa Bates Hong Kong e Southern China depois de causar mortes em Taiwan e Filipinas
Hong Kong e partes de Sul da China Weere em alerta alto como Tremendous Storm Ragasao ciclone tropical mais poderoso do mundo este ano, abordou na quarta -feira com ventos e chuvas poderosas, forçando as autoridades chinesas a encerrar escolas e empresas em pelo menos 10 cidades.
Quase 1,9 milhão de pessoas foram realocadas Guangdong Província, a potência econômica do sul da China. A Agência Nacional de Meteorologia prevê que o Tremendous Storm chegaria à terra entre as cidades de Yangjiang e Zhanjiang à noite. Escolas, fábricas e serviços de trânsito foram suspensos em cerca de uma dúzia de cidades.
Em outros lugares, a explosão de um lago de barreira em Taiwan Matou pelo menos 14 pessoas e deixou 124 pessoas desaparecidas, anunciaram as autoridades, depois que o tremendous tufão Ragasa bateu a ilha com chuvas torrenciais e causou danos generalizados a partes de partes de Leste da Ásia.
A borda externa do Tremendous Storm Ragasa está abaixando Taiwan desde segunda -feira, enquanto seu caminho se transfer em direção à costa do sul da China.
Ragasa já havia derrubado árvores, arrancado os telhados dos edifícios e matou pelo menos duas pessoas enquanto rasgava o do norte das Filipinasonde milhares procuraram abrigo nas escolas e nos centros de evacuação.
Pelo menos 10 mortes foram relatadas nas Filipinas, incluindo sete pescadores que se afogaram depois que o barco foi espancado por enormes ondas e vento feroz e virou na segunda -feira Santa Ana cidade no norte Cagayan província. Faltavam outros cinco pescadores, disseram autoridades provinciais.
Quase 700.000 pessoas foram afetadas pelo ataque na principal região do norte das Filipinas da Luzon, incluindo 25.000 pessoas que fugiram para abrigos de emergência do governo.
Em Hong Kong e Macauum centro de cassino próximo, cancelou escolas e voos, com muitas lojas fechadas. Centenas de pessoas procuraram refúgio em centros temporários em cada cidade. As ruas em Macau se transformaram em riachos com vários detritos flutuando na água.
Aqui estão alguns outros desenvolvimentos importantes:
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Todos os desembarques e partidas em Hong Kong, o aeroporto de carga mais movimentado do mundo e o nono mais movimentado para o tráfego internacional de passageiros, foram cancelados por 36 horas a partir da terça -feira à noite. Cerca de 80% das aeronaves pertencentes às quatro principais companhias aéreas baseadas em Hong Kong foram realocadas ou aterradas em aeroportos do Japão, China, Camboja, Europa, Austrália e outros locais, mostrou dados de rastreamento de Flightradar24.
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O observatório de Hong Kong disse que o tremendous tufão ragasa, com ventos máximos sustentados perto do centro de cerca de 195 km / h (120 mph), contornou cerca de 100 quilômetros ao sul do centro financeiro. Estava previsto para continuar se movendo oeste ou oeste-noroeste a cerca de 22 km / h (cerca de 14 mph).
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O governo disse anteriormente que o aumento dos níveis de água pode ser semelhante ao registrado durante o tufão Mangkhut em 2018 – Estima -se que tenha causado as perdas econômicas diretas da cidade no valor de 4,6 bilhões de dólares em Hong Kong (US $ 592 milhões).
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O primeiro-ministro de Taiwan, Cho Jung-Tai, telefonou na quarta-feira para uma investigação sobre o que deu errado com ordens de evacuação em um condado oriental, onde inundações de um lago de montanha violado durante um forte tufão matou 14Assim, Enquanto os avisos frescos assustavam os moradores. Cho disse que a prioridade imediata period encontrar o 129 ainda faltando, mas as perguntas permaneciam.
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O número morto em Taiwan aumenta para 15, digamos o corpo de bombeiros
TaiwanO Corpo de Bombeiros da quarta -feira se ajustou a 17 o número de pessoas desaparecidas de uma inundação causada por Tremendous Storm Ragasade 152 dados anteriormente, e disse que uma outra pessoa foi confirmada morta, elevando o número de mortos para 15.
Chotos de drones mostraram inundações em um filipino cidade ao norte da capital, Maniladepois de fortes chuvas de Tremendous Storm Ragasa Bata na área.
O presidente do país, Ferdinand Marcos Jrordenou que a agência de resposta a desastres do país continuasse alerta e mobilizou todas as agências governamentais em resposta a Ragasa, que varreu o norte das Filipinas depois de fazer o desembarque na segunda -feira.
Ragasa, o tufão tropical mais poderoso do mundo este ano, trouxe ventos de força de furacão de até 220 km/h (137 mph) e rajadas de até 295 km/h.
As ruas estavam principalmente vazias quando o vento aumentou na quarta -feira de manhã em Yangjianguma cidade a oeste de Hong Kong perto de onde Tremendous Storm Ragasa Espera -se que atinja o aterrissagem.
Um lojista native disse à Agence France-Presse (AFP), ela não tinha certeza se seria capaz de abrir sua loja de conveniência. “Isso dependerá das condições climáticas”, disse ela.
O Estação de trem Yangjiang – Normalmente movimentado de atividade, disseram os habitantes locais – ficavam vazios, com viagens ferroviárias suspensas na quarta -feira em toda a província de Guangdong.
Vários distritos de Hong Kong tiveram casos de inundações, de acordo com imagens circulavidas nas mídias sociais e verificadas pela AFP.
No Fullerton Ocean Park Lodgeao lado de um parque temático, um homem foi visto perdendo o equilíbrio depois que a tempestade quebrou as portas da frente de vidro e passou o saguão, mostrou um dos vídeos.
“Estamos fazendo tudo o que podemos para mitigar o impacto causado pelo Tremendous Storm”, disse um porta -voz do lodge.
Águas de inundação correram para a beira -mar Heng Fa Chuen Propriedade residencial e cobriu seus pátios interiores, mostrou outro videoclipe.
Ventos fortes arrancaram o topo de uma passarela de pedestres, enquanto muitos dos prédios altos da cidade balançavam e sacudiam com os ventos fortes.
Um bombeiro de folga sobrenome Tse Disse que estava “um pouco preocupado” com a segurança de andaimes de bambu nas proximidades enquanto voltava para casa após um turno de 11 horas de trabalho “ininterrupto”.
“Este estava previsto para ser muito ruim, então estávamos esperando um pouco de caos … [but everywhere seems to be functioning quite efficiently still,” said Benjamin Phizacklea, a 27-year-old chef.
The rail operator MTR said train services on open sections were suspended, with limited service available on the underground sections.
Authorities said more than 760 people sought refuge at the 50 temporary shelters across Hong Kong.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has spoken to residents who witnessed a decades-old lake barrier bursting in Taiwan.
“It was like a volcano erupting …. The muddy flood waters came roaring straight into the first floor of my house,” Hsu Cheng-hsiung, 55, a neighbourhood leader of Kuang Fu township, told AFP.
According to the National Fire Agency, at least 152 people are missing in Hualien and elsewhere in Taiwan.
“It was a disaster movie,” a local resident Yen Shau, 31, told AFP. He said an hour before the lake burst, many people were still at the local supermarket and grocery store.
“Within minutes, the water had risen to halfway up the first floor,” he said. Shau told AFP that he could not sleep on Tuesday night for fear of another deluge from the lake, and on Wednesday was shovelling mud from his home. “The mud was just too deep, too deep to dig out,” he added.
Footage released by the fire agency showed flooded streets, half-submerged cars and uprooted trees.
Across Taiwan, more than 7,600 people were evacuated due to Typhoon Ragasa.
Hong Kong’s airlines evacuate planes as they wait out Typhoon Ragasa
Ahead of the arrival of hurricane-force winds and torrential rain on Wednesday, about 80% of the aircraft belonging to the four main airlines based in Hong Kong had been relocated to or grounded at airports in Japan, China, Cambodia, Europe, Australia and other locations, Flightradar24 tracking data showed.
All landings and departures at Hong Kong, the world’s busiest cargo airport and the ninth busiest for international passenger traffic, were cancelled for 36 hours starting on Tuesday evening, reports Reuters.
Hong Kong’s largest airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, said on Monday that Super Typhoon Ragasa was going to have “a significant impact” on its operations and it would cancel more than 500 long-haul and regional flights.
“We are positioning some of our aircraft away from Hong Kong and expect a staggered and gradual resumption to our schedule throughout Thursday into Friday,” said the airline, which has a fleet of 179 passenger and freighter planes.
Hong Kong issued typhoon signal 10, its highest warning, early on Wednesday, which urges businesses and transport services to shut down.
It is standard industry practice for airlines to move aircraft abroad during major weather events or as conflict risk rises to avoid potential damage, often to comply with insurance obligations, reports Reuters.
Airlines can also preemptively send aircraft away from their main base so they are ready to operate return flights when a storm subsides. In high winds, airlines can store aircraft in hangars, or add extra fuel to weigh them down. Smaller aircraft can be tied down.
At least 14 Cathay Pacific jets flew from Hong Kong to Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Techo airport on Tuesday to wait out the storm, according to tracking data and Techo airport.
Hong Kong-based Greater Bay Airlines, a small carrier with seven aircraft, said it had parked all its planes away from Hong Kong as a safety precaution. Its Boeing 737s flew to airports in Japan and China on Tuesday, tracking data shows.
Hong Kong Airlines similarly appeared to have kept all but one of its 28 aircraft out of Hong Kong.
Cathay and its low-cost subsidiary HK Express kept more of their planes in Hong Kong, tracking data showed. Cathay and HK Express did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment about how they were storing their planes.
Taiwanese premier calls for lake flooding inquiry after 14 die
Taiwan premier Cho Jung-tai called on Wednesday for an inquiry into what went wrong with evacuation orders in an eastern county where flooding from a breached mountain lake during a strong typhoon killed 14, as fresh warnings spooked residents, reports Reuters.
Sub-tropical Taiwan, frequently hit by typhoons, normally has a well-oiled disaster mechanism that averts mass casualties by moving people out of potential danger zones quickly. But many residents in Guangfu, an inundated town in the beauty spot of Hualien thronged by tourists, said there was insufficient warning when the lake overflowed during Tuesday’s torrential rains brought by Super Typhoon Ragasa.
Cho said the immediate priority was to find the 129 still missing, but questions remained. He told reporters in Guangfu:
For the 14 who have tragically passed away, we must investigate why evacuation orders were not carried out in the designated areas.
This is not about assigning blame, but about uncovering the truth.
The barrier lake, formed by landslides triggered by earlier heavy rain in the island’s sparsely populated east, burst its banks to send a wall of water into Guangfu.
Resources were insufficient to help relocate those with disabilities, said Lamen Panay, a Hualien councillor, who added that government evacuation requests before the flood had not been mandatory.
Referring to guidance for people to head to higher floors, she said, “What we were facing wasn’t something ‘vertical evacuation’ could resolve.”
Reuters repots that as heavy rain continued on and off in Hualien, police cars sounded sirens a new flood warning in Guangfu on Wednesday, sending people scrambling for safer areas as residents and rescuers shouted, “The flood waters are coming, run fast.”
Taiwan has been lashed since Monday by the outer rim of Super Typhoon Ragasa, which is now hitting China’s southern coast and Hong Kong.
Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and southern China after causing deaths in Taiwan and Philippines
Hong Kong and parts of southern China weere on high alert as Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, approached on Wednesday with powerful winds and rains, forcing Chinese authorities to shut down schools and businesses in at least 10 cities.
Nearly 1.9 million people were relocated across Guangdong province, the southern Chinese economic powerhouse. The national weather agency forecast the super typhoon would make landfall between the cities of Yangjiang and Zhanjiang in the evening. Schools, factories and transit services were suspended in about a dozen cities.
Elsewhere, the bursting of a barrier lake in Taiwan killed at least 14 people and left 124 people missing, officials announced, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rains and brought widespread damage to parts of east Asia.
The outer rim of Super Typhoon Ragasa has been bearing down on Taiwan since Monday as its path moves down towards the southern Chinese coast.
Ragasa had already toppled trees, torn the roofs off buildings and killed at least two people while ripping through the northern Philippines, where thousands sought shelter in schools and evacuation centres.
At least 10 deaths were reported in the Philippines, including seven fishers who drowned after their boat was battered by huge waves and fierce wind and flipped over on Monday off Santa Ana town in northern Cagayan province. Five other fishers remained missing, provincial officials said.
Nearly 700,000 people were affected by the onslaught in the main northern Philippine region of Luzon, including 25,000 people who fled to government emergency shelters.
In Hong Kong and Macau, a nearby casino hub, canceled schools and flights, with many shops closed. Hundreds of people sought refuge in temporary centers in each city. Streets in Macau turned into streams with various debris floating on the water.
Here are some other key developments:
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All landings and departures at Hong Kong, the world’s busiest cargo airport and the ninth busiest for international passenger traffic, were cancelled for 36 hours starting on Tuesday evening. About 80% of the aircraft belonging to the four main airlines based in Hong Kong has been relocated to or grounded at airports in Japan, China, Cambodia, Europe, Australia and other locations, Flightradar24 tracking data showed.
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Hong Kong’s observatory said Super Typhoon Ragasa, with maximum sustained winds near the centre of about 195kph (120mph), skirted about 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the south of the financial hub. It was forecast to continuing moving west or west-northwest at about 22 kph (about 14 mph).
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The government previously said the rise in water levels could be similar to those recorded during Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018 – estimated to have caused the city direct economic losses worth 4.6bn Hong Kong dollars ($592m).
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Taiwan premier Cho Jung-tai called on Wednesday for an inquiry into what went wrong with evacuation orders in an eastern county where flooding from a breached mountain lake during a strong typhoon killed 14, as fresh warnings spooked residents. Cho said the immediate priority was to find the 129 still missing, but questions remained.
