Following the stormy Mid-Autumn Festival, residents in China's eastern coastal regions witnessed a severe typhoon on Sunday that brought high tides, heavy rain and wind gusts that battered the coastline and caused heavy damage.
Typhoon Meranti, which landed in eastern China's Fujian Province Thursday morning, has left 14 people dead and another 14 missing.
The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Friday activated a level III emergency response to cope with approaching Typhoon Malakas.
Repair workers in Xiamen, eastern China's Fujian Province, are busy restoring the power grid damaged by Typhoon Meranti, which landed in the city Thursday.
Typhoon Meranti has left seven people dead and another nine missing in eastern China's Fujian Province, the local government announced Friday.
Meranti, which has weakened from a super typhoon to a tropical depression, will continue to ravage China's coastal regions with heavy rainfall, the country's observatory said Friday.
Typhoon Meranti slammed into southeastern China on Thursday with strong winds and lashing rain that cut power to 1.65 million homes. One person died and 51 were injured in Taiwan, the Central Emergency Operation Center there said.
One person was killed and 51 others were injured since Wednesday as Typhoon Meranti has traveled across southern Taiwan, according to local authorities on Thursday.
Typhoon Meranti made landfall in Xiang'an district of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, at 3:05 am Thursday, with gales up to 48 meters per second.
Typhoon Meranti triggered waves 17 meters high on Wednesday as it swept across seas off the southern coast of Taiwan, according to the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC).
China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) upgraded its warning for ocean waves triggered by Typhoon Meranti to "red" on Wednesday, the highest alert on a four-color warning system.
Travelers heading for southeastern coastal regions like Fujian and Guangdong provinces to celebrate the coming Mid-Autumn Festival may encounter stormy weather instead of a full moon this year.
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