A balcony ceiling collapsed after strong winds hit a home as Typhoon Ragasa battered southern China.

Footage shows broken wooden panels flying across the veranda as violent gusts ripped through Guangdong on Wednesday, September 24.

A woman can be heard screaming in fear as she moved away from the glass walls.

The typhoon made landfall along the coast of Hailing Island in Yangjiang city at about 5 p.m. local time, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 144 kph (89 mph).

Authorities ordered schools and businesses closed in at least ten cities as citizens braced for Ragasa's landfall in Guangdong province.

Local media reported that nearly 1.9 million people were relocated across the region amid the storm's onslaught.

In Zhuhai city, huge waves pounded the coastline while powerful winds uprooted trees under the extreme weather conditions.

Super Typhoon Ragasa, described as the strongest storm of the year so far, has wreaked havoc across East Asia after tearing through the northern tip of the Philippines and Hong Kong, killing at least 10 people in the Philippines and displacing thousands. Taiwan has also reported 17 fatalities linked to the storm.

Ragasa first made landfall in the Philippines' remote and impoverished Babuyan Islands at about 3 p.m. local time on Monday. Its arrival compounded weeks of severe flooding caused by an unusually intense monsoon season.

In Hong Kong, authorities grounded more than 700 flights from Tuesday evening as the storm barrelled toward the Chinese coast. Panicked residents also cleared grocery shelves while preparing to hunker down in their homes.