Updates: Super Typhoon Vongfong Intensifies, to Hit Japan - Strongest Typhoon on Earth 2014

Updates: Super typhoon Vongfong intensifies and threatens to hit Japan this Sunday, Oct. 12. Vongfong is now the strongest typhoon on earth this 2014 with 330kph of wind as of October 9, 2014. Its path of destruction on southern Japan.

Vongfong is the sixth super typhoon to strike this year and is the largest since Typhoon Haiyan which killed over 6000 people in the Philippines in November last year.

It’s intensity has prompted the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre to issue an alert saying winds of up to 324 kilometres an hour are expected today with gusts even stronger, as well as fifteen metre waves.

The most intense storm of 2014 is currently moving at around 11 kilometres an hour towards the Japanese Island of Okinawa — around 1000km south of Tokyo — which is home to three quarters of the US military bases in Japan.

Japan government already issued a warning and evacuated people for those places who will be hit by supertyphoon Vongfong.