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By Ben Blanchard NINGDE, China (Reuters) - A "super typhoon," the strongest to hit China in half a century, slammed into the coast on Thursday killing at least two people, injuring more than 80 and forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes. Typhoon Saomai, one of three storms to hit East Asia in the past few days, made landfall in the southeastern province of Zhejiang, hitting Cangnan county just after a state of emergency was declared, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. It...
By Nick Macfie and Guo ShipengBEIJING -- More than half a million Chinese have fled their homes in the path of a super typhoon, the strongest to threaten the country in 50 years, as it churned relentlessly toward the southeast coast on Thursday.Saomai, one of three storms to have hit East Asia in the past few days, has already dumped heavy rain on Taiwan and was just hours from an expected landfall between Hong Kong and Shanghai, just south of the booming city of Wenzhou.Storm tracker...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A super typhoon, gathering strength all the time, was heading directly for east China on Thursday and was expected to hit within hours after forcing the evacuation of nearly half a million people. Typhoon Saomai, one of three storms to have threatened East Asia in the past few days, has already dumped heavy rain on Taiwan and was expected to make landfall about midway between Hong Kong and Shanghai, just south of the booming city of Wenzhou. Storm tracker Tropical...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon, gathering strength all the time, was heading directly for east China on Thursday and was expected to hit within hours, forcing the evacuation of nearly half a million people. Typhoon Saomai, one of thee storms to have threatened in the last few days and which has already dumped heavy rain on Taiwan, was expected to make landfall about midway between Hong Kong and Shanghai, just south of the booming city of Wenzhou. The province of Zhejiang had...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The deaths caused by Tropical Storm Prapiroon in south China rose to 48 on Saturday and 15 people remain missing, the official Xinhua news agency said, but the storm was weakening as it moved inland. Over 5 million people were hit by torrential rains after the storm made landfall in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday evening, Xinhua reported. Direct economic losses were estimated at 2.4 billion yuan ($300 million) as Prapiroon triggered landslides,...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Typhoon Prapiroon, which killed six people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the northern Philippines, closed in on southern China on Thursday and thousands have been evacuated ahead of its arrival. At 0010 GMT, the center of Prapiroon, which means "God of rain" in Thai, was about 280 km (175 miles) south of Hong Kong and is forecast to move at about 14 km an hour toward China's Guangdong province, the Hong Kong observatory said. Southern China, already...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Kaemi have killed at least 18 people and left more than 60 missing in southern China, state media said on Thursday. Kaemi weakened into a tropical depression after sweeping across China's southeastern coast on Tuesday, but downpours it brought soaked at least four provinces, all of which are still reeling from damage by tropical storm Bilis. Six people were killed when flash floods along a mountainside hit a military...
SEOUL (Reuters) - A typhoon that killed more than 30 people in China killed at least six in South Korea where it cut a path of destruction across the peninsula with floods and landslides, officials said on Tuesday.Typhoon Ewiniar was headed out to sea after it came over the Korean peninsula on Monday, first striking the southwest coast, and then heading on a northeast track.It dumped as much as 26 cm (10.2 inches) of rain in South Kyongsang province, in the southern part of the country,...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Floods and landslides have killed more than 30 people across China in recent days, state media said on Monday, as a typhoon threatening eastern cities stayed away and weakened into a tropical storm. Seven oilfield workers were killed in a landslide in the northwestern province of Gansu on Thursday, the China Daily said. Sixteen died in the southwestern province of Yunnan on Thursday and Friday and a landslide in the suburbs of Taiyuan, capital of the northern...
TOKYO (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon was nearing Japan's southern island chain of Okinawa on Friday, likely bringing strong winds and torrential rain to the area later in the day, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. Typhoon Ewiniar, whose name means "storm god" in the Chuuk language of Micronesia, was south of Okinawa and moving slowly north-northwest early on Friday, bringing with it winds of up to 160 km (99 miles) per hour, the agency said. The agency warned of heavy rain and...
Latest Pacific ocean Reference Libraries
The Pacific Rim is a reference to places around the edge of Pacific Ocean. The term Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands within the Pacific Ocean. It roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. These countries are generally considered to be a part of the Pacific Rim, since they lie along the Pacific Ocean: North/East Asia Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,...
North America is a continent completely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost completely within the Western Hemisphere. It’s also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It’s bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. This continent covers an area of approximately 9,540,000 sq miles, about 4.8 percent of the plants surface or about...
Honolulu, located in the Pacific Ocean, has a mostly marine time climate and has a pretty consistent temperature average from month to month. This is a look at the La-Nina impacts on the local area. January 2012: For the month of January it is typical to see average high temps in the 80’s while overnight lows drop into the 70’s. During the La-Nina event January temps were normal 71% of the month at the, with above temps 23% of the month and 6% of the month found the temps dropping...
If you look in the photo above you can see the line of Cumulus clouds that appear in the background. These clouds were created by daytime heating and also an unstable atmosphere. The moisture for these clouds was rising from the Pacific Ocean. The darker cloud is the stronger of the cumulus clouds meaning that the majority of the moisture is being absorbed by that cloud. The clouds around this one are also starting to get more moisture from the ocean to build. Above the cumulus clouds you...
The Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila) is a species of marine invertebrate related to tube worms and commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. This species lives from a mile to several miles deep underwater, on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers, where it is able to tolerate extremely high hydrogen sulfide levels. The common name “giant tube worm” is also applied to the largest living species of shipworm, Kuphus polythalamia. Despite given the name...
