China - 6.0 Quake Forces Relocation of 400,000

[sharon sanders]

The Associated Press
Friday, July 10, 2009; 6:50 AM


BEIJING -- More than 400,000 people need to be relocated after an earthquake rocked southwestern China, destroying thousands of homes, state media said Friday.


Thursday's magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, killed one person and injured 325 others, 24 seriously, the Xinhua News Agency said.


Nine aftershocks have followed the quake, with the latest registering a 5.2-magnitude Friday evening, Xinhua said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.


The quake collapsed 18,000 homes and damaged 75,000 more, Xinhua said.


The report said China's civil affairs ministry has ordered the immediate delivery of 5,000 tents and other relief materials. The provincial civil affairs department has already allocated 4,000 tents, 3,000 quilts and other relief materials to Yao'an.


More than a 1,000 police and soldiers have been dispatched to the disaster zone, Xinhua said.


Yunnan is a quake-prone, mountainous region that lies on China's southern border with Thailand and Myanmar. It also borders Sichuan province, where a magnitude-7.9 quake last year left almost 90,000 people dead or missing.


In 1988, a 7.1-magnitude quake in Yunnan near Myanmar killed 930 people. More than 15,000 people died after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake in the province in 1970, though authorities at the time covered up information on casualties and damage amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071001108.html

 

[gsgs]

Re: China - 6.0 Quake Forces Relocation of 400,000

compare with the big Sichuan earthquake:

deaths 1000 vs. 90000
tents:5000 vs.100000
relocated: 400000 vs. 15M

(so far)

 

[Treyfish]

Re: China - 6.0 Quake Forces Relocation of 400,000

[SIZE=+1]China earthquake worse than feared[/SIZE]
<SMALL>Malaysia Sun
Saturday 11th July, 2009 </SMALL>

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A powerful earthquake that flattened thousands of homes in the southwestern part of China has caused a rush of emergency workers to enter the worst-hit areas.

Residents have been devastated by the destruction caused by Thursday's magnitude 6.0 earthquake in China's Yunnan province.

Chinese officials have called for relief efforts to be stepped up and for supplies to be sent to the region as quickly as possible.

Already, thousands of people have taken refuge inside tents.

Groups of soldiers have been shovelling through rubble in an effort to find survivors in the collapsed houses.

So many homes have collapsed that it has been difficult for officials to keep tally.

The official Xinhua news agency says the quake destroyed more than 18,000 homes and damaged 75,000.

The death toll has not yet been assessed but over 250,000 people have been left homeless:tiphat:http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/518007/cs/1/