UNITED STATES - A “super typhoon” with equivalent force to a category-5 hurricane made landfall on the US island of Rota in the Pacific on July 6, the National Weather Service said, warning of “catastrophic damage and (a) life threatening situation”.“The western eyewall of Super Typhoon Bavi is currently moving over the island of Rota. The latest forecast intensity is at 180 mph (290 kph) as it passes over Rota,” the NWS said. “Catastrophic winds exceeding 150 mph will continue across Rota during eyewall passage.”The weather system also brought extremely strong winds and lashing rain to other parts of the Northern Marianas and the nearby separate US territory of Guam, collectively home to around 210,000 people.The island group around 6,000 miles west of the western mainland United States w