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Power outages in Japan as Typhoon Nanmadol heads toward Tokyo
By Junko Ogura, Heather Chen and Jake Kwon
More than 300,000 homes in southwestern Japan were left without power after Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall on Sunday night, prompting local authorities to issue a "special warning" urging residents to seek shelter from the storm. mighty storm.
The storm is now moving north across Japan's third-largest island, Kyushu, and is expected to bring heavy rain throughout the week, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday.
About 10 million people in Kyushu were advised to seek shelter in sturdy buildings or move to higher ground ahead of the storm's arrival on Sunday.
Such notices are not mandatory and authorities have had trouble in the past encouraging people to leave their homes.
On Sunday, Kyushu authorities took the unusual step of issuing a rarely used "special warning" in hopes of conveying the seriousness of the threat posed by the storm.
A "full-scale disaster" could also be imminent with major flooding and landslides, JMA warned.
"The highest level of vigilance is required for water level rise and river flooding, landslide disasters and lowland flooding," he said on Sunday.
Several prefectures, including the cities of Fukuoka and Nagasaki, have been without power since the typhoon hit on Sunday, power company Kyushu Electric said.
So far, at least 17 people have been injured by the typhoon, authorities added.
Nanmadol is the 14th typhoon Japan has experienced this year and comes after the country dealt with record heat waves in June that caused power outages for millions of residents in the capital Tokyo and a large number of heat strokes among the most vulnerable.
Nanmadol is expected to travel across central Japan towards Tokyo in the coming days and will maintain much of its strength as it moves forward, experts have warned.
Ferry and bullet train services, as well as hundreds of flights, have been canceled across the country due to dangerous weather.
More extreme weather events continue to affect other parts of the region.
Taiwan suffered a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Sunday that shook buildings, derailed train cars and prompted tsunami warnings in southern Japan near Okinawa prefecture.
Residents were asked to stay alert for possible aftershocks.
28 mins ago
27 people die and 20 others are injured after a covid-19 quarantine bus overturned in China
By Yong Xiong and Philip Wang
A bus carrying dozens of people to a COVID-19 quarantine facility in southwest China's Guizhou province overturned into a ravine early Sunday, leaving 27 dead and 20 injured, local authorities said in a statement. a news conference.
According to Lin Gang, deputy mayor of Guiyang, the bus was taking 45 residents of the provincial capital city of Guiyang to Libo county, a remote and mountainous city about 250 kilometers away, for quarantine.
The bus left Guiyang at 12:10 a.m. (12:10 p.m. Saturday ET) and overturned on the expressway at 2:40 a.m.
The cause of this accident is still under investigation, Lin said.
It is still unclear why a quarantine bus would leave after midnight to transport people to another city for quarantine.
China's transportation regulations prohibit long-distance passenger buses from operating between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Local authorities have been facing pressure to achieve the "zero Covid" goal.
The Guiyang Evening Paper said on Saturday that the city had prepared 20 buses and 40 bus drivers to transport close contacts of covid patients to other cities.
And as of Saturday, the city had moved more than 7,000 people to other cities and nearly 3,000 more were waiting to be transported by bus from Guiyang.
News of the deaths sparked a huge outcry on Chinese social media, with many questioning the country's increasingly stringent zero-Covid policy.
Many posts of the accident published by state media have banned people from commenting, and search results for Guizhou on Chinese social media appear to be leaked.
Guizhou province has stepped up covid-19 testing and quarantine measures due to its outbreak.
The province reported 712 new cases on Saturday, more than other provinces combined, according to China's National Health Commission.
1 hour ago
At least 5 dead after series of earthquakes in southern Iran
By Teele Rebane, Hannah Ritchie and Maija Ehlinger
At least five people were killed and 44 others injured in a series of earthquakes in southern Iran on Saturday, according to the country's semi-official FARS news agency.
Four separate earthquakes were recorded near the southern port city of Bandar-e Lengeh, including one with a magnitude of 6.1, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) website.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center also recorded a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in southern Iran.
Twelve villages in the surrounding province of Hormozgan were damaged, FARS reported.
Most of the damage was in Sayehkhosh village, where many houses were destroyed, Iranian state media IRNA reported, citing local officials.
Five villages were left without power due to the earthquakes, officials said.
"Currently, 75 operational rescue forces and emergency teams are present in the earthquake-affected areas with the use of 12 operational vehicles," the Iranian Red Crescent Society said on Twitter.
Tremors could be felt in the United Arab Emirates, according to on-the-ground reports from CNN staff.
Other affected countries include Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and Afghanistan, according to the USGS.
The area is known for its seismic activity and the USGS included in its update that the "sequence of earthquakes" reported in the last few hours is "relatively common."
At least one person was killed after a succession of earthquakes hit southern Iran last November.
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