An “urgent red alert” was issued in China on Wednesday after a strong typhoon hit a widely populated area in the south of the country. The state Meteorological Administration issued the highest warning level for the calamity that hit China. The officials managed to evacuate more than 100,000 people before the typhoon, Hagupit, made its way through the southern part.

Still, the storm had killed at least eight people in the Philippines this week. The tropical storm risk was a Category 3 on a scale of 5, but the streets, the shops and buildings were highly damaged when Hagupit made its landfall. The provinces of Guangdong and Maoming, were the center of the typhoon, in the southern China.

Yet, only one boat sunk while other damages seemed to be out for the moment. Xinhua, the state news agency, said that Hagupit was "the worst to hit Guangdong in more than a decade." Floods and damaged trees were also found in Hong Kong. Many people around the area in which the airport is located were hurt by the typhoon.

Nearly 50,000 ships were called back ashore after the typhoon and the strong rain were forecasted. The next target of the torrential rain will be Guangxi and then it will spread to the tropical resort island of Hainan. Also the flights in Hong Kong were canceled on Wednesday night.

In the Philippines 14 miners got stuck in a gold mine and four people drowned while three others were buried by landslides. Some of the areas affected by the typhoon were evacuated and left without power or telephone services.