The eye of Super Typhoon Ragasa is larger than Hong Kong Island.

Hong Kong was on high alert Tuesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa, the strongest storm on earth so far this year, barrels towards the territory.

The massive typhoon – the eye of which is larger than Hong Kong Island – already caused chaos in the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan as it passed into the South China Sea. It is due to make landfall in Guangdong early Wednesday morning local time, bringing hurricane force winds with speeds of up to 230 kph to Hong Kong, Macao and the southern Chinese coast.

The Hong Kong Observatory said Ragasa could have a “considerably larger” impact on the territory than 2018’s Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which left hundreds injured, tens of thousands without power, and uprooted more than 60

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