China is on highest alert as super typhoon Chan-Hom approaches the eastern coast at high speeds. The National Meteorological Center issued a red alert, the highest level of alert, on Friday morning for Chan-Hom, whose center was spotted 430 km southeast off the coast of Zhejiang Province at 2 p.m. The typhoon is moving northwestward from the East China Sea at a slower speed of 20 km per hour, but is still strengthening. It is forecast to land somewhere between Rui'an and Zhoushan in Zhejiang Province between Friday night and Saturday noon, Xinhua reported. The wind speed at the center of the typhoon is forecast to top 58 meters per second at landfall.
