The Chinese town of Jiaji in Qionghai, Hainan recorded a minimum central pressure of 937.8 hPa when Marge made landfall.
903 people were killed in Hainan when Marge landed in Ninh Bình and Thanh Hóa provinces in North Vietnam in mid September, 1973.
Marge made its final landfall in Tam Diep Mountains (border of Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces) Vietnam in late September 14, 1973 and dissipated in the Upper Laos soon after.
The weather forecast in a local newspaper, the Hainan Daily, only showed that the wind force would be 7 to 8 on the Beaufort scale on September 14, providing an insufficient warning.
Approximately 40% of the rice harvest was destroyed, and Qiuci lost 40,000 mu, accounting for 56% of the county's planting area that year.
[7] Data from the Qionghai Meteorological Station on the north side of the landing site showed that it recorded a 10-minute average wind speed of 48 meters per second from 4:12 to 4:22 on September 14.
[6] The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) deployed search and rescue teams to support local authorities in ferrying people to safer ground.