Participating the teleconference today on preparation for the 7th typhoon, which entered East Sea this year, were also authorities from 22 provinces and cities from Hai Phong to Quang Binh.
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| Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung speaks at the conference |
According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, who heads the Steering Committee, Sarika is the most powerful typhoon for years with unpredictable developments.
Cuong added, in the next 24 hours, the typhoon continues to move west-northwest and might change direction to west afterwards at the speed of 20-25 kilometers an hour and if it moves as forecast, it will be the late and off-season storm hitting the northern region.
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| Location of the storm in the East Sea. |
Head of the Steering Committee also warned that complex situations would possibly happen as the northern central region is still dealing the consequences of heavy floods, which killed 21 and destroyed more than 100.000 houses.
Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung at the conference requested people’s committees of the central provinces at all level to keep a close watch on the movement of the typhoon and to inform all people and vehicles, which are still operating at sea to stay away from the area of danger and take shelter.
He asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting to hourly update the typhoon’s movement to the government and to the committee to support proactive preparations.
Ministries and local authorities must stand ready with prepared response activities, he emphasized.
| In the next 24 hours, the storm is predicted to move west-northwest and then westwards at a speed of 20-25km per hour. At 7am of October 17, the central of the 7th typhoon Sarika is expected at about 16.7 degrees north latitude and 114.6 degrees east longitude, about 250km east of Hoang Sa archipelago, carrying maximum sustained winds of 150-165km per hour. |
