( CNN ) -- Typhoon Usagi had Hong Kong and China 's Pearl River Delta in its predicted path Sunday . At 9 a.m. Sunday ( 9 p.m. Saturday ET ) , Usagi was about 242 miles east of Hong Kong , the Hong Kong Observatory said . It was expected to move west-northwest at about 11 miles per hour . The U.S. Navy 's Joint Typhoon Warning Center said the storm had sustained winds of 115 mph . That was a drop from the 162 mph recorded on Friday , but Chinese authorities were bracing for major effects from landfall expected Sunday or Monday to the east of densely populated Hong Kong . Fujian Province evacuated more than 80,000 people and deployed more than 50,000 disaster-relief personnel , state news agency Xinhua reported . Evacuations also took place in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces , state-run news agency Xinhua said . The news agency said some shipping along the coast and between Taiwan and the mainland had been halted . More than 44,000 fishing boats had been ordered into port . CNN 's Michael Martinez , Jethro Mullen and Todd Borek contributed to this report .
Winds from Typhoon Usagi drop but still register 115 mph . More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from Fujian Province . Some shipping to Taiwan and along the coast has been suspended . The U.S. National Weather Service says that a tropical storm is forming in the western Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.