Alarm cleared over sea ice off China coast
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China's sea forecast center halted an alarm on Friday for sea ice covering Liaodong Bay off China's eastern coast for days.
Friday's monitoring by the North China Sea Marine Forecasting Center of the State Oceanic Administration showed that the maximum outer edge of floating ice over the Liaodong Bay in Bohai Sea had shrunk to 57 nautical miles from 74 nautical miles a day earlier.
In the meantime, the area of floating ice over other waters in the sea also decreased, with the maximum outer edge in Bohai Bay shrinking to 10 nautical miles and that in Laizhou Bay no more than 10 nautical miles.
Bohai Sea, semienclosed by the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas, is one of the country's busiest sea routes.
Thursday's monitoring by the center showed that 27,433 square kms or about one third of the Bohai Sea was covered with ice.
The center forecasts that the sea ice, mostly 10-20 cm thick and 35 cm at the thickest, will continue to decrease over the next three days.
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