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Victoria Bela

Shanghai and parts of China’s east coast are on alert for storm damage, with Typhoon Co-May making landfall in the city on Wednesday afternoon.
Warning of heavy rain and flooding, city authorities said the storm hit Fengxian district at around 4.40pm and was moving inland.
Shanghai had also been bracing for a tsunami following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula at 7.24am.
China’s Tsunami Warning Centre at the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a yellow alert – the second-lowest in the four-tier system – in the morning, warning that waves ranging up to 1 metre (3.3 feet) could hit Shanghai’s coast.
But that warning was cancelled in the early afternoon.

The earthquake, which was initially recorded as a magnitude 8, is now among the 10 strongest earthquakes in recorded history.
The tsunami alert had been issued for the coast of Shanghai and Zhoushan in Zhejiang province.
Typhoon Co-May – the eighth typhoon of the season – made landfall in the same area, with maximum sustained winds at its centre of 83km/h (52 miles per hour), according to the National Meteorological Centre. It is now classified as a tropical storm, with heavy associated rainfall.
The centre said severe winds and rainfall were expected in Shanghai in the evening.
The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre also issued a blue storm surge alert, with surges of up to 1.4 metres expected along China’s eastern coast from Jiangsu province down to Hangzhou Bay, just past Shanghai.

The Shanghai flood control office said 280,000 people had been moved to higher ground by Wednesday morning, according to the Xinmin Evening News.
“The rain is pouring, and I’m really worried about water leaking from my balcony,” Shanghai resident Gloria Zhang said.
“I heard people in Pudong [district] are already being relocated – that makes me a bit nervous. But since I live in Puxi [district], it does not feel as immediate. Still, the rain outside my window is intense.”
The earthquake, which was initially recorded as a magnitude 8, is now among the 10 strongest earthquakes in recorded history.
The tsunami alert had been issued for the coast of Shanghai and Zhoushan in Zhejiang province, which is also where Typhoon Co-May made landfall earlier today.
Typhoon Co-May made landfall at around 4.30am on Wednesday, with maximum sustained winds at its centre of 83km/h (52 miles per hour), according to China’s National Meteorological Centre. It is now classified as a tropical storm, with heavy associated rainfall.

Benjamin Horton, dean of the school of energy and environment at City University of Hong Kong, said the tropical storm would be a “significant threat” to Shanghai.
“The thing that we know about typhoons now with climate change is that they commonly stall along the coastline. So, they just deliver far more rain than they used to,” Horton said.
Warmer ocean conditions and stalling caused typhoons to dump more rain inland than they used to, resulting in flooding, Horton said.
Additional reporting by Luna Sun


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Emergency warnings issued, evacuations under way as deluge from Typhoon Co-May drenches region