A powerful typhoon Mangkut struck the Philippines and China: 59 dead

The powerful typhoon Mangkut, which was originally classified as a super typhoon, struck the Philippines on Saturday. The strongest rains and winds destroyed hundreds of houses, uprooted trees, turned over dozens of cars on the streets. According to RIA News, the death toll as a result of the elements reached 59 people, 47 injured, 16 considered missing.

Photo: Twitter / WEATHER / METEO WORLD

As of Sunday, the typhoon wind speed is 173 kilometers per hour, and wind gusts reach up to 223 kilometers per hour, writes CNN.

At 4 on Sunday morning, the storm was in 110 kilometers west southwest of Hong Kong and headed towards the Pearl River Delta, where 120 million people live. At the moment, more than 100 thousand people have been evacuated.

Because of the elements, more 550 flights from Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou airports had to be noted.

Earlier it was reported that a ferocious typhoon made landfall near the coastal city of Bagao, Cagayan province on the northeastern edge of Luzon island. The region is a local breadbasket of rice paddies and mountainous provinces vulnerable to natural disasters, and has a history of deadly landslides, he writes. Time.

More than 5 million people were at risk from the possible storm, which was downgraded from a super typhoon to one category by the Typhoon Warning Center as it made landfall. But it did not become any less dangerous - powerful winds and rains can be compared to a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane at the moment Mangkut made landfall in the Philippines.

Violent #TyphoonManghkut is now landfall in NE Luzon, Philippines. The winds of the wind (up to 170mph) on the coast right now are unimaginable pic.twitter.com/J8mDABV1FE

- Matt Taylor (@MetMattTaylor) September 14, 2018

China and the Philippines agreed to postpone the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, which was scheduled to start on Sunday, nearly 150 flights were also canceled, a third of which were international, and passenger traffic at sea was also stopped.

Photo: Twitter

Francis Tolentino, an adviser to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, said at least 12 people were killed, mostly in landslides and houses that were destroyed by fierce winds and rain. The dead included an infant and a two-year-old child, who died along with their parents who refused to immediately evacuate from a high-risk area in a mountain village. “The children could not decide on their own where to go,” Tolentino expressed his regret.

Super Typhoon from PH to HK#Manghkut #TyphoonManghkut #Philippines #hongkong pic.twitter.com/P6mQ5Mjmws

- masay (@ 3masayb) September 15, 2018

It was also previously reported that at least two people were missing. Tolentino said the death toll could increase, at least to 16, when other accident reports are verified. According to Mayor Mauricio Domogan, three people were killed and six were missing in the mountain town of Baguio, rain destroyed several houses and caused landslides that blocked the roads to a popular vacation spot. It is unclear whether the cases described by the mayor were included in the general statistics of deaths and missing persons.

Authorities checked the deaths of three people, including two children who died as a result of drowning, when the typhoon reached the dry land. On Friday, about 70 people returned to the coastal village in Cagayan to check their homes when the storm was approaching the area, but here, according to Tolentino, the dead are not reported.

Recent view from #Tuguegarao City #Philippines #TyphoonManghkut making landfall now with winds near 165mph. #MANGKHUT report; @allangatus pic.twitter.com/lGAS4RfJ5S

- WEATHER / METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) September 14, 2018

The wind speed of Manghut weakened to 170 kilometers (105 miles) per hour with gusts to 260 km / h (161 miles per hour) after it passed through the north-west and headed to the South China Sea, focusing on Hong Kong and other places in the south of China.

About 87 000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas in the Philippines. Tolentino and other officials advised them not to return home until the danger had passed.

“This is still a life-or-death situation,” Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana said by telephone, citing deaths in swollen rivers in mountain provinces following storms in previous years.

Storm warnings were issued in 10 northern provinces, including Cagayan, where damaging winds could still return, forecasters said. Thousands of people were evacuated along the typhoon's path.

In the capital of Cagayan, Tuguegarao, journalists from the Associated Press found a heavily destroyed city market with a torn roof, scattered wooden tents and canvas awnings. Everything around was in the wreckage of trees, and workers cleared the roads from fallen trunks and branches. Many shops and houses were damaged, but most of the residents remained indoors, hiding from the fragments of iron sheets flying in the air, roof tiles and other dangerous objects.

The terminal of Tughegarao Airport is badly damaged, its roof and glass windows are broken, chairs, tables and papers are scattered inside by the wind, Lorenzana said.

? Segment of video taken by Tuba municipal police patrol of a flooded highway in northern Philippines during #TyphoonManghkut (Source: https://t.co/qGqkgliVn2) pic.twitter.com/y0o6MFQWCe

- Kristine Servando (@tinssoldier) September 15, 2018

The typhoon came at the start of the rice and corn harvest season in Cagayan, a major agricultural producer for the entire region. An assessment of government damage was carried out, with the exception of areas where rains and winds are raging now.

In Hong Kong, Security Minister John Lee Ka-chiu called on residents to prepare for the worst, as the storm is heading for the city.

Cathay Pacific announced that all flights will be canceled between 2: 30 local time on Sunday and until 4: 00 until Monday. In the neighboring province of Fujian in China, 51 000 people were evacuated from fishing vessels and about 11 000 vessels returned to the port on Saturday morning.

The National Meteorological Center of China issued a warning that Manghut will go ashore in Guangdong province on Sunday afternoon or evening.

Ferry services in the Hangzhou Strait in southern China were stopped on Saturday, helicopters and tugs were sent to Guangdong to ferry naval workers there for safety reasons.

Wind starting to pick up in HK #TyphoonManghkut pic.twitter.com/pClZf7ZiL3

- Iain Martin (@_IainMartin) September 15, 2018

Mangkhut, the Thai word for mangosteen fruit, is the 15th storm this year to hit the Philippines. The region, on average, is hit by about 20 storms a year and is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions on the planet.

In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan resulted in the loss of 7 300 people killed or missing, hundreds of destroyed villages, beached ships, and more than 5 millions of residents evacuated to the central Philippines.

What makes a typhoon different from a hurricane?

When you hear the word “typhoon,” you probably think something like, “It’s like a hurricane, right?”

In fact, typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes are the same elements, only they are born in different oceans, notes CNN. It all depends on where in the world a natural phenomenon occurs.

It is typhoons that occur north of the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. There are hurricanes on both sides of America in the Western Hemisphere. Cyclones form around the Indian Ocean or in the South Pacific.

Crossing the internationally accepted line separating the hemispheres, a hurricane can turn into a typhoon and vice versa. So it was with Hurricane Genevieve, who became a typhoon with the same name in 2014.

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