October 18, 2010, 6: 12 AM EDT by Cecilia Yap and Stuart Biggs

(Updates with the death of the man in the first paragraph.)

October 18 (Bloomberg) – supertyphoon Megi made landfall at Philippines, dumping heavy rain and uprooting of trees on Luzon Island most populous nation. A man drowned once the authorities declared a State of emergency calamity.The storm swept land near the Bay of Divilacan tuguegarao city, Southeast at 11: 25 am hour local weather, said Geophysicist & Astronomical Services Administration. Megi had sustained winds of around 270 kilometres per hour (168 miles per hour) before the eye crossed the coast, common marine United States Typhoon Warning Center said.Megi, known in the Philippines like John, is expected to weaken and cross the North Luzon in the early morning before heading towards a track south of China.En South China Sea wind five hurricane intensity scale, Megi had been qualified category 5, capable of government criticized for his answer, last year when the Ketsana Tropical storm left approximately 460 Manila people dead and flooded, catastrophic damage.The is “better prepared now,” the Executive Secretary Francisco Ochoa said today. “Everyone is aware of their jobs”.the Vicente Decena, a 53-year-old next week in which he had been absent in Cagayan, village Council elections candidate body was found today by the authorities in a river. «At least five were reported wounded as well as during the storm.One child was injured, according to the national disaster coordination Council, two women were injured in a restaurant in tuguegarao city, said Lt. General Gaudencio Pangilinan, Commander of the military in Northern Luzon, and two employees of the Department of public works were injured while deleting a road, said the Agency.» State of the province of Calamity’Isabela, where Megi made landfall, was declared in State of calamity, Office administrator civil defence Benedict Ramos said at a briefing in Manila. A decision by Cagayán province immediately north may be delayed since some communication lines are down, said.Signal not. 4, the maximum alert storm, published for the provinces of Isabela, Cagayan, Kalinga, mountain, Ifugao, said the Meteorological Agency. Megi Center was 50 km south-southwest of tuguegarao city at 15.00 hours, weather said.The country may lose 600 000 metric tons of crops of rice, Secretary of State of agriculture Antonio Fleta said in a telephone interview from Manila today. Half of the hectares of 157.000 (388,000 acres) of land planted with rice in Cagayan, Isabela and must still be harvested, he said. Canceled CancellationsCebu Air Inc. world largest rice importer.Flight is eight flights, largest in the Philippines says budget airline. Philippine Airlines canceled flights to Laoag North of Manila, spokesman for the heaven Villaluna said.About 270 passengers ferry were abandoned as ships remained in port, says the national disaster coordination Council. Approximately 3,700 people were evacuated from their homes.Megi can bring “similar” to Ketsana, Graciano Yumul, official in charge of the Bureau of meteorology, rains said in Filipino Manila.The Agency said that crossed Earth and were blowing 190 miles per hour as West-Southwest of storm moved to 17 kph. weakened the Megi winds The storm can dump as much as 60 mm (2.4 inches) rain by MedicinesFood hour.Preparing and medication packages were prepared in the northern provinces national disaster Coordinating Council said in a previous notice. Schools in the affected areas were closed.National Corp. Philippines, which operates the country’s high-voltage transmission grid said that they activate headquarters in the main and regional offices to minimize the impact of the storm. Megi interrupted Cagayan power supply and provinces of Isabela, said.Emergency Disaster Council advisory services are on alert and ready to carry out evacuation, President Benigno Aquino said in a statement on its Web page. “Do not want to unduly public alarm, but there is nothing lost by being prepared,” said.Storms him in the Pacific Northwest are designated as supertyphoons when the wind speed exceeds 241 kph according United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Almost of 5 million people were affected by the floods as Ketsana swept across Luzon in September of the year past. Manila can escape levels of last year’s floods as passes Megi North, Yumul said.The Philippines is regularly hit by tropical cyclones forming in the Pacific Ocean to the East of the country.Typhoon Conson left 102 people killed in July and destroyed or damaged more than 70,000 homes, disaster storm said.The Coordination Council is expected to cross the South China Sea and can hit the South coast of China to the East of Hong Kong with 185 kph winds said the Unidos.Megi States Navy “severely” will affect the coast Weather Center National China said in a statement on its Web site, the name of a catfish in South Korea today.Megi is related to the feeling of getting wet in the Hong Kong Observatory, which lists the names assigned to storms in the Pacific Northwest.Storm of the season is the 15th.

-With assistance by Joel Guinto and Francisco Alcuaz Jr. in Manila and Javier Ann Luzi in Singapur.Editores: Aaron Sheldrick, Randall Hackley

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