Home Disasters: Typhoon China News Service (2002-09-28)

Tropic storm "Megkhla" hit Beihai of Guangxi with heavy disaster

( Abstract )

No. 20 tropic storm "Megkhla" of this year brought severe disaster to Beihai City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Until the reporter to distribute the news, 670,000 people from the four districts and counties of the whole city suffered from it and the direct economic loss is RMB174 million. Not any casualty is reported...

The tropic storm landed Sanya of Hainan Province in the afternoon of September 25 and the center landed the place between Beihai and Qinzhou cities at the wind force of 7th to 8th. Affected by it the rainstorm hit the city for 30 hours from 20 o'clock of September 26 and the rainfall in the city proper reached 357 millimeters...



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