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What makes a storm a typhoon? What's a super typhoon?

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A powerful typhoon churned over the US Pacific territory of Guam and lashed the island with wind and rain.

Typhoon Mawar is the strongest to hit the US territory of roughly 150,000 people since 2002. The typhoon briefly made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 4 storm at Andersen Air Force Base on the northern tip of the island.

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