Death toll from typhoon Fanapi in southern China rises to 100

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TAIPEI, Taiwan ? A powerful typhoon ripped into Taiwan on Sunday, crippling transportation around the island and shutting off power as thousands of residents fled mountainous areas prone to devastating landslides.

Typhoon Fanapi was the first major storm to strike the island this year and was forecast to move into eastern China early Monday. It made landfall in Taiwan's eastern city of Hualien at 8:40 a.m. (0040 GMT) with winds of 102 mph (162 kph). By afternoon its winds had weakened to 89 mph (144 kph) as the storm churned westward at 12 mph (20 kph), the Central Bureau said.

The bureau said as much as 24 inches (619 millimeters) of rain had been dumped in southern Taiwan with much more to come. TV footage showed some streets in the southern counties of Kaohsiung and Pingtung inundated with water.

Officials evacuated 6,000 residents from remote areas vulnerable to landslides, half of them in the southern part of the island, according to Taiwan's Central Emergency Operation Center.

The center also said 45 people were injured. Some were cut by broken glass and others hurt when they fell off motorcycles in strong winds.
Landslides caused by torrential rains are traditionally the greatest danger the typhoons bring to this island of 23 million people, which is riven by a series of tall mountains and narrow valleys dotted with hundreds of isolated farming communities.

Taiwan's China Airlines suspended all international departures from the southern city of Kaohsiung, and other airlines, including Hong Kong's Dragon Air and China Eastern canceled scheduled flights to regional destinations from Taipei.

All of Taiwan's domestic air and rail service was halted.

Officials said seven inter-county roads in central and southern Taiwan were closed because of safety concerns, and another 18 were blocked.

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China Steps Up Emergency Response for Typhoon Fanapi as Storm Nears Coast

China Steps Up Emergency Response for Typhoon Fanapi as Storm Nears Coast

China Steps Up Emergency Response for Typhoon Fanapi as Storm Nears Coast

By Weiyi Lim -<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>document.write(dateFormat(new Date(1284921379000),"mmm d, yyyy h:MM TT Z"));</SCRIPT> Sep 19, 2010 1:36 PM CT

China raised its emergency response for Typhoon Fanapi ahead of the storm striking the country today, the China Meteorological Administration said.

The agency raised its response to Level Two from Level Three and said Fanapi may reach coastal areas from eastern Guangdong to central Fujian during the day. The government warned on Sept. 18 that Fanapi may be the strongest storm to strike the country this year, according to a statement posted on the website of the National Meteorological Center.

Fanapi swept through Taiwan yesterday with winds gusting as high as 180 kilometers (112 miles) per hour, downing electric lines, forcing evacuations and closing schools, offices, airports and ground transport. Some 45 people were injured, the Central Emergency Operations Center said.
Power outages struck 313,596 households on the island, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported on its website, adding that electricity was restored at 140,000. Emergency workers evacuated 10,468 people from 13 counties and 53 townships prone to landslides, the Central Emergency Operations Center said.

Fanapi made landfall south of Hualien on Taiwan?s central east coast yesterday morning and was 20 kilometers southeast of Penghu, heading west towards China at 20 kilometers per hour, the Central Weather Bureau said on its website at 8:30 p.m.

President Ma Ying-jeou?s government mobilized more than 19,000 emergency workers to prepare for any disaster caused by Fanapi, boosting precautions this year after Typhoon Morakot battered Taiwan for three days in August 2009, killing more than 600 people and causing at least NT$110 billion ($3.47 billion) of damage.

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Ma, whose popularity dropped to a record low 29 percent in the wake of that destruction, was at the Central Emergency Operations Center yesterday and the day before.

Majia township, in Pingtung County, received an accumulated 954 millimeters (37.6 inches) of rain, the most reported, and further downpours were forecast, the bureau said. That compares with the single-day record of 1,415 millimeters Morakot dumped on Taiwan.

The accumulated rainfall was reaching the levels that fell during Morakot, the Central Emergency Operations Center said.

Evacuation areas included Kaohsiung and Chiayi counties, which were among the worst hit by Morakot last year. Schools and offices at Kaohsiung city, Kaohsiung County, Taitung county and Pingtung county are closed today, the Central Personnel Administration said on its website.

Schools and offices at capital Taipei city will be open, it said. Taiwan?s stock exchange will be open as well, Wen Li-chung, an official at the bourse, said by mobile phone yesterday.

Fanapi forced the cancellation of 213 domestic and 73 international flights, according to an e-mailed statement from the Ministry of

Transportation and Communications. 22 flights were canceled between Hong Kong and Taiwan yesterday as of 4:30 p.m., according to Hong Kong?s Airport Authority. Traffic on 36 roads was blocked as of 7 p.m. last night.

To contact the reporter on this story: Weiyi Lim in Taipei at wlim26@bloomberg.net.

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Typhoon Fanapi leaves 33 dead, 42 missing in south China

Typhoon Fanapi leaves 33 dead, 42 missing in south China

Typhoon Fanapi leaves 33 dead, 42 missing in south China

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Updated: 2010-09-23 07:06

GUANGZHOU -- Floods and landslides due to heavy downpours brought by typhoon Fanapi have claimed 33 lives in south China's Guangdong Province, while another 42 remain missing, local authorities said Wednesday.​

Meanwhile, more than 1 million people were affected and 78,400 people in low-lying areas were forced to be evacuated, the provincial flood control headquarters said in a statement.


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Death toll from typhoon in southern China rises to 54

Death toll from typhoon in southern China rises to 54

23 September 2010 Last updated at 06:39 ET
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Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fanapi have now killed 54 people and left at least 42 missing in southern China, state media said.

Guangdong province experienced its heaviest rains in a century as the typhoon moved slowly westwards after making landfall on Monday.
More than 78,000 people in low-lying areas were evacuated and one million affected, officials said.

Meteorologists say the typhoon is the strongest to have hit China this year.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has forecast more heavy or torrential rains for parts of central and western parts of Guangdong.

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Death toll from typhoon Fanapi in southern China rises to 100

Sep 28, 2010

Fanapi death toll hits 100

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BEIJING - THE death toll from Typhoon Fanapi, which hit China last week, has now reached 100 and the storm has caused more than five billion yuan (S$986.7 million) in losses, news reports said on Tuesday.

Another 41 people are missing in southern China's Guangdong province, hit hard by the storm after it slammed into Taiwan, according to a Nanfang Daily report posted on the provincial civil affairs department website.

The report said that more than 1.2 million people had been impacted by the storm - the strongest to hit China in years.

Many people have been cut off by flooding, and helicopters have been used to ferry water, food and tents to those stranded in isolated areas.

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Re: Death toll from typhoon Fanapi in southern China rises to 100

Deadly breach blamed on top mining group

Source: Global Times
[01:20 September 29 2010]

By Deng Jingyin

Authorities in South China's Guangdong Province are holding China's biggest gold mining company responsible for a dam breach that left 28 people dead or missing last week, after a landslide was triggered by Typhoon Fanapi.

The Guangdong Provincial government has established an investigation team led by Zhu Mingguo, Guangdong's deputy Party head, and vice governor Li Rong'geng to probe the accident, authorities said Monday.

Preliminary investigations concluded that Xinyi Zijin Mining, a branch of China's largest gold mining company Zijin Mining, is responsible for the accident.

The dam in Xinyi held tailings of a tin mine when it overflowed on September 21 as rainstorms pounded the area. Grayish mud and rocks from the dam flattened part of a village, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

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Re: Death toll from typhoon Fanapi in southern China rises to 100

South China province to demolish risky dam

Source: Xinhua News Agency
Date: 28 Sep 2010

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XINYI, Guangdong, Sept 28 (Xinhua) -- A dam, considered close to collapse, will be demolished in south China's Guangdong Province, provincial authorities said Tuesday.

The dam of the Qianfeng Hydraulic Power Plant in Xinyi City was severely damaged by floods triggered by typhoon Fanapi, and might collapse anytime, threatening tens of thousands of villagers, said Kuang Mingyong, spokesman for Guangdong' s water affairs authorities.

"Consolidation and repair work cannot solve the problem, it must be blown up," he said.

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