Overview

• At 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, Ragasa was about 120 km south of Hong Kong with maximum sustained winds near 195 km/h, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
• Taiwan’s Hualien county reported at least 14 dead, 18 injured and more than 100 missing after a lake dyke failure triggered flooding during the storm.
• Hong Kong issued Signal No. 10, suspended city transport and warned of severe flight disruption as Cathay Pacific prepared to cancel about 500 services.
• Mainland China activated a national emergency response, closed schools and businesses across parts of Guangdong, Hainan and Fujian, moved over 10,000 vessels to safe harbors and halted ferries.
• In the Philippines, Ragasa made landfall on Calayan in the Babuyan Islands, displacing thousands with reports of at least two deaths and significant wind damage.