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2013-08-21 03:26:14 - Earthquake - China

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EDIS Code: EQ-20130821-40613-CHN
Date&Time: 2013-08-21 03:26:14 [UTC]
Continent: Asia
Country: China
State/Prov.: Province of Gansu,
Location: Dingxi City region,
City:
Number of dead people: 73
Number of injured people: 400
Number of missing people: 12
Damage level:
Not confirmed information!

Event location map


Description:
The government of Dingxi city in Gansu province, which was hit by quakes with magnitudes of 5.9 and 5.6, gave the figures on a verified social media account. "More than 21,000 buildings were severely damaged and more than 1,200 have collapsed," an official at the provincial earthquake bureau said, adding that 371 aftershocks had been recorded. The tremor set off landslides which buried often crudely constructed local houses. Pictures from the scene showed simple buildings reduced to rubble, with the pieces of corrugated metal scattered over the wreckage. In one location 12 people were buried, the broadcaster quoted a witness as saying. "The rescue work is tough, because the house has been completely buried," the man said. More than 2,000 soldiers, 300 police, 50 medical staff and two helicopters had been sent to the area. "We are rushing to the scene," Dingxi's vice-mayor said, which showed an orange-suited rescue worker riding on a tractor. "The damage to houses made from earth bricks has been severe and many are now unusable," the official said, adding that the number of people buried by the quake was still being estimated. More than 700 rescue workers had arrived at the scene. The US Geological Survey said the initial 5.9-magnitude quake hit at 7:45 am (2345 GMT Sunday) at a depth of just 9.8 kilometres.rnrnA second 5.6-magnitude tremor hit the same region at 9:12 am and was 10.1 kilometres deep, USGS said. A resident of Min county told AFP he was at work at a medicine production plant when the tremor struck and he saw tower blocks shake "ferociously". While Gansu is one of China's more sparsely populated provinces, Dingxi city, which includes the worst-hit counties, has a population of about 2.7 million. Pictures broadcast on state television showed rural villages with rubble-strewn streets. A total of 380 buildings collapsed and thousands were damaged in Zhang county, according to an online post by the Dingxi local government. Communications were cut off in 13 towns in the county, the official Xinhua news agency said, and power was off in some areas. The quake was felt in the provincial capital Lanzhou and as far away as Xian, the capital of the neighbouring province of Shaanxi. People posting on China's hugely popular microblogs expressed sympathy for the victims. Beijing's own China Earthquake Networks Centre put the magnitude of the larger quake at 6.6.

 

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