Moment of deadly 'China earthquake, landslide caught on camera’ . . .
Today 20, Syawal/7 Sept. RT News - (28 minit yang lalu) Gempa bumi China maut, tanah runtuh yang dirakam pada kamera' Satu siri gempa bumi melanda luar bandar barat daya China pada hari Jumaat, runtuh rumah dan mencetuskan tanah runtuh. Sekurang-kurangnya 50 orang terbunuh, dan angka kematian dijangka meningkat. (RT News - (28 minutes ago) ‘Moment of deadly China earthquake, landslide caught on camera’ A series of earthquakes hit rural southwestern China on Friday, collapsing homes and triggering landslides. At least 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise).
WORLD News ‘Gempa membunuh sekurang-kurangnya
43 di pergunungan SW China' . . .
by 1WC’sChannel | earthWatch Today 20 Syawwal/Friday 7, September 2012
BEIJING (AP) - Satu siri gempa bumi meruntuh rumah-rumah dan mencetuskan tanah runtuh di bahagian pergunungan terpencil di barat daya China pada hari Jumaat, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 50 orang dengan tol dijangka meningkat. Kerosakan itu telah menghalang penyelamat daripada sampai ke beberapa kawasan terpencil, dan komunikasi terganggu.
Gempa bermula dengan kejutan 5.6 magnitud sebelum 11:30 pagi di sepanjang sempadan Guizhou dan wilayah Yunnan, dan satu lagi gempa sama besar melanda sejurus selepas tengah hari dan diikuti oleh lebih daripada 60 gegaran susulan, kata ahli seismologi Cina dan kerajaan Amerika Syarikat. Walaupun kekuatan sederhana, gempa cetek, yang sering menyebabkan kerosakan yang lebih.
Paling sukar melanda adalah County Yiliang, di mana 49 daripada 50 kematian berlaku, berkata wilayah Yunnan agensi-agensi kerajaan dan media negeri. Sebanyak 150 orang di daerah cedera, kata Zhang Junwei, jurucakap biro seismologi wilayah.
China Tengah televisyen menunjukkan jalan yang bersepahan dengan batu dan batu tongkol, dan tiang debu meningkat atas hillcrests - tanda-tanda tanah runtuh. Rakaman menunjukkan beberapa ratus orang kesesakan ke dalam apa yang kelihatan seperti padang sekolah olahraga di county seat Yiliang, sebuah bandar yang agak besar yang tersebar di sepanjang sungai di bawah lembah.
Dengan beberapa jalan yang dilalui, penyelamat masih belum mencapai beberapa kampung dan bandar-bandar terpencil, rasmi Agensi Berita Xinhua berkata. Walaupun gempa di kawasan itu kerap berlaku, bangunan di kawasan luar bandar cepat berkembang di China bandar-bandar kecil dan bandar-bandar sering dibina dgn buruk. Pada tahun 2008, magnitud-7,9 gempa bumi yang melanda wilayah Sichuan, hanya utara Yunnan, membunuh hampir 90,000 orang, dengan banyak kematian yang dipersalahkan ke atas struktur yang kurang baik dibina, termasuk sekolah.
Xinhua berkata gempa Jumaat musnah atau rosak 20.000 rumah. Biro seismologi Yunnan berkata dan lebih daripada 100,000 orang telah dipindahkan dari rumah mereka. Semua diberitahu, Xinhua berkata, 700,000 orang mempunyai kehidupan mereka terganggu oleh gempa bumi itu.
Di Luozehe, sebuah bandar di Yiliang berhampiran lombong zink, penduduk dan media negeri berkata batu-batu berjatuhan di lereng-lerng bukit dan rumah-rumah yang runtuh. "Ia adalah menakutkan. Abang saya telah terbunuh oleh batu-batu yang terjatuh. Gegaran susulan melanda lagi dan lagi. Kami begitu takut," Xinhua memetik pelombong Peng Zhuwen sebagai berkata.
Seorang pegawai kerajaan di bandar Jiaokui berkata sebilangan besar rumah telah runtuh. "Bilangan mangsa masih sedang dikumpulkan. Saya tidak tahu apa yang adalah seperti bandar-bandar lain, tetapi bandar saya mendapat terjejas teruk," katanya. Seperti ramai pegawai Cina, beliau enggan memberikan namanya.
Perkhidmatan telefon mudah alih ke bawah dan talian telefon biasa terganggu. Telefon telah dipotong ke klinik di 4 kampung di Qiaoshan, satu lagi bandar di Yiliang, yang mempunyai kira-kira setengah juta orang. Xinhua berkata beribu-ribu khemah, selimut dan kot telah dihantar ke kawasan itu.
Ia berkata bahawa setakat ini tiada kecederaan telah dilaporkan dalam jiran Guizhou, tetapi bahawa rumah telah rosak atau musnah di sana. Gempa Jumaat yang agak cetek, kira-kira 6 batu atau 10 kilometer mendalam, mewujudkan berjabat sengit walaupun pada magnitud yang lebih rendah.
Sebagai perbandingan, gempa bumi 7.6 magnitud yang melanda Costa Rica minggu ini adalah 25 batu (41 kilometer) di bawah permukaan, dan digabungkan dengan kod bangunan yang ketat, yang disimpan kerosakan dan kematian pada tahap minimum.
WORLD News ‘Quakes kill at least 43
in mountainous SW China . . .
BEIJING (AP) - A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China on Friday, killing at least 50 people with the toll expected to rise. Damage was preventing rescuers from reaching some outlying areas, and communications were disrupted.
The quakes started with a 5.6-magnitude shock before 11:30 a.m. along the borders of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, and another equally big quake struck shortly after noon followed by more than 60 aftershocks, Chinese and U.S. government seismologists said. Though of moderate strength, the quakes were shallow, which often causes more damage.
Hardest hit was Yiliang County, where 49 of the 50 deaths occurred, said Yunnan province government agencies and state media. Another 150 people in the county were injured, said Zhang Junwei, a spokesman for the provincial seismology bureau.
China Central Television showed roads littered with rocks and boulders, and pillars of dust rising over hillcrests - signs of landslides. Footage showed a couple hundred people crowding into what looked like a school athletic field in Yiliang's county seat, a sizeable city spread along a river in a valley bottom.
With some roads impassable, rescuers had yet to reach some outlying villages and towns, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Though quakes in the area occur frequently, buildings in rural areas and China's fast-growing smaller cities and towns are often constructed poorly. In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 quake that hit Sichuan province, just north of Yunnan, killed nearly 90,000 people, with many of the deaths blamed on poorly built structures, including schools.
Xinhua said Friday's quakes destroyed or damaged 20,000 homes. The Yunnan seismology bureau said and more than 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes. All told, Xinhua said, 700,000 people had their lives disrupted by the quake.
In Luozehe, a town in Yiliang near a zinc mine, residents and state media said boulders hurtled off hillsides and houses collapsed. "It is scary. My brother was killed by falling rocks. The aftershocks struck again and again. We are so afraid," Xinhua quoted miner Peng Zhuwen as saying.
A government official in Jiaokui town said a large number of houses had collapsed. "The casualty number is still being compiled. I don't know what was like for the other towns, but my town got hit badly," he said. Like many Chinese officials he refused to give his name.
Mobile phone services were down and regular phone lines disrupted. Phones were cut off to clinics in four villages in Qiaoshan, another town in Yiliang, which has about half a million people. Xinhua said thousands of tents, blankets and coats were being shipped to the area.
It said that so far no casualties had been reported in neighboring Guizhou, but that homes had been damaged or destroyed there. Friday's quakes were relatively shallow, about 6 miles or 10 kilometers deep, creating an intense shaking even at a lower magnitude.
By comparison, the 7.6-magnitude quake that struck Costa Rica this week was 25 miles (41 kilometers) below the surface, and combined with strict building codes, that kept damage and deaths to a minimum.
