With Typhoon Kaemi reaching land in eastern China, the Ministry
of Land and Resources on Tuesday has been warning local bureaus on
Kaemi's route to be on the alert for land disasters.
"All precautionary measures should be taken to keep losses as
low as possible," said an emergency notice released by the
ministry, asking local bureaus concerned to map out emergency plans
as quickly as possible.
"People living in areas threatened with heavy rainfall and
highland disaster risks should be relocated," the notice said.
People living near rocky mountain slopes, mountain valleys and
reservoirs should be taken care of, the notice said, and the
warning system in these areas should be able to work
effectively.
Typhoon Kaemi, the fifth to hit China this year, made landfall
in Jinjiang City, southeast China's Fujian Province, at 3:50 PM Tuesday.
The eye of the typhoon had a wind velocity of 33 meters per
second when it reached land, said the provincial observatory.
Prior to Kaemi's arrival, more than 640,000 people in Fujian,
including 310,000 on the sea, had been evacuated to safe places,
according to the latest statistics from the provincial flood
control authorities.
The typhoon brought rainstorms to southern coastal areas of the
province on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall of 50 to 105 millimeters lashed
many other counties or cities in Fujian, according to flood control
sources.
(Xinhua News Agency July 26, 2006)