A fast-moving typhoon barreled across the center of the Philippines Monday after slamming ashore overnight from the Pacific, leaving at least one person dead, and with flooding and power outages displacing tens of thousands of people, officials said.

Typhoon Kalmaegi was blowing over the city of Sagay in central Negros Occidental province mid-morning with sustained winds of up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour and gusts up to 185 kph (115 mph) after making landfall around midnight in the town of Silago town in the eastern province of Southern Leyte.

Kalmaegi, the 20th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippines this year, was moving northwestward at 25 kph (16 mph) and was forecast to start shifting away from the western section of the archipelago into the South China Sea later Tuesday.

An elderly villager drowned in floodwaters in Southern Leyte, where a province-wide power outage was also reported, officials said in an initial report without providing other details.

Ahead of the typhoon's landfall, disaster-response officials said over 150,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern Philippine provinces.

Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of up to 3 meters (nearly 10 feet).

The typhoon has a broad wind band spanning about 600 kilometers (373 miles), and was expected to batter central island provinces, including Cebu, which is still recovering from a 6.9-magnitude earthquake on September 30 that left at least 79 people dead and displaced thousands when houses collapsed or were severely damaged.

The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.

It is often hit by earthquakes and has more than a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

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