Typhoon lands in China, but skirts Shanghai
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This picture taken on Aug 6, 2012 shows damaged cars by the side of a street, after a storm following Typhoon Saola hits Shiyan, in central China's Hubei province, leaving 14 dead. Shanghai and nearby coastal areas rushed on Tuesday to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and order ships to port as China prepared for its third typhoon in less than a week. -- PHOTO: AFP
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This Nasa Aqua satellite image shows Typhoon Haikui over China on Aug 7, 2012. China rushed to evacuate more than 400,000 people on Tuesday as the most powerful typhoon since 2005 threatened the commercial hub of Shanghai, the government and state media said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Chinese families evacuate their homes in the outskirts of Shanghai on Aug 7, 2012, ahead of Typhoon Haikui. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Chinese rescuers help evacuate residents from their homes in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang province on Aug 7, 2012, ahead of Typhoon Haikui. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Oriental Pearl TV Tower is reflected in a large puddle on the Bund, one of the most popular tourist destination in town, following a brief downpour as Typhoon Saola approaches Thursday Aug 2, 2012 in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
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Visitors watch the scenery from the Bund, one of the most popular tourist destination in town, following a brief downpour as Typhoon Saola approaches, Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
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Chinese visitors shelter under umbrellas in the rain while waiting for the Qiantang River tides on the river bank in Haining in east China's Zhejiang province, Thursday, Aug 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a plastic box is blown off across a street on Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 in Shipu Town in Xiangshan County, east China's Zhejiang Province. -- PHOTO: AP
This picture taken on Aug 6, 2012 shows damaged cars by the side of a street, after a storm following Typhoon Saola hits Shiyan, in central China's Hubei province, leaving 14 dead. Shanghai and nearby coastal areas rushed on Tuesday to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and order ships to port as China prepared for its third typhoon in less than a week. -- PHOTO: AFP
This Nasa Aqua satellite image shows Typhoon Haikui over China on Aug 7, 2012. China rushed to evacuate more than 400,000 people on Tuesday as the most powerful typhoon since 2005 threatened the commercial hub of Shanghai, the government and state media said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese families evacuate their homes in the outskirts of Shanghai on Aug 7, 2012, ahead of Typhoon Haikui. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese rescuers help evacuate residents from their homes in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang province on Aug 7, 2012, ahead of Typhoon Haikui. -- PHOTO: AFP
Oriental Pearl TV Tower is reflected in a large puddle on the Bund, one of the most popular tourist destination in town, following a brief downpour as Typhoon Saola approaches Thursday Aug 2, 2012 in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
Visitors watch the scenery from the Bund, one of the most popular tourist destination in town, following a brief downpour as Typhoon Saola approaches, Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese visitors shelter under umbrellas in the rain while waiting for the Qiantang River tides on the river bank in Haining in east China's Zhejiang province, Thursday, Aug 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a plastic box is blown off across a street on Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 in Shipu Town in Xiangshan County, east China's Zhejiang Province. -- PHOTO: AP
SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's third typhoon in a week ploughed into its eastern coast on Wednesday, halting transport in the financial capital of Shanghai and toppling houses in some rural areas, state media said.
Typhoon Haikui made landfall early on Wednesday morning in Zhejiang province south of Shanghai, after authorities moved more than one million people out of the path of the storm, reports said.
The typhoon quickly weakened after landing south of Ningbo city, the China Meteorological Administration said, but warned that Haikui was still packing winds of up to 144km per hour.
In Sanmen county, near where Haikui made landfall, the typhoon toppled four houses and cut off power to nearly 100 villages, state media said.
