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Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 38 in China’s Sichuan

Sophie Beach — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:14:29 +0000

The death toll from the Panzhihua earthquake is rising as authorities send emergency relief teams to the area. From Bloomberg:

Authorities are sending 6,500 tents and 20,000 quilts to areas of Sichuan affected by the latest earthquake, and 3,200 tents and 3,000 quilts to Yunnan, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on its Web site today. Rainstorms forecast in the coming week may make relief work more difficult, Xinhua said.
More than 258,000 houses were damaged and 152,000 people were displaced, the ministry said. Seven reservoirs, 22 highways and three bridges were also damaged, Xinhua reported.
In Yunnan, more than 130,000 homes were destroyed, affecting 600,000 people, according to the news agency’s report, which cited civil affairs officials in the province.

Read also “Quake Brings Grim Repetition to China” from the Washington Post.

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China Quake Toll May be Worse Than Feared

Sophie Beach — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:04:03 +0000

The earthquake that struck Panzhihua, Sichuan and surrounding areas has killed at least 28 people and destroyed 100,000 homes, state media is reporting. From the New York Times:

The earthquake, which was centered in Sichuan Province and had a magnitude of 6.1, damaged highways, reservoirs, bridges and hundreds of schools, and it forced the evacuation of more than 40,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring Yunnan Province, reported Xinhua, the state news agency. More than 230 people were reported injured.
[...] On Sunday afternoon, a strong aftershock, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, was reported in Sichuan, but it was unclear whether there was any new damage, Chinese officials said.
Over the weekend, poor communication in the southern part of Sichuan was making it difficult for the government and news agencies to determine the scale of the damage or how many people had died.
The earthquake struck at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the state-run news media, and was centered near the city of Panzhihua, in the southern part of Sichuan, far south of the May 12 earthquake. The China Earthquake Administration ordered an emergency response to the area after early reports of heavy damage in some places.

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Southwest China Quake Destroys Homes, Three Dead

Sophie Beach — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:45:47 +0000

Another earthquake has hit Sichuan Province. From Reuters:

The epicentre of the quake, which struck around 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT), was about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Panzhihua, near the border with Yunnan province, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was about 6 miles (10 km) deep.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 5.7 and China’s official Xinhua news agency said it measured 6.1 on the Richter scale.
“The death toll has risen to three in Huili county. A large number of houses have collapsed,” Qi Kaihong, deputy chief of the Huili county publicity department, told China’s CCTV.

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Sophia Cao — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:07 +0000

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