{"id":526942,"date":"2010-04-14T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-4848302693315565454"},"modified":"2010-04-14T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:46:41","slug":"scores-killed-in-china-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526942","title":{"rendered":"Scores Killed in China Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Damage from earthquake in China has done extensive harm to property and individuals. The quake was registered at 6.9 magnitude.<\/a>
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
07:21 Mecca time, 04:21 GMT \t <\/p>\n

Scores killed in China quake<\/p>\n

Television images indicate significant damage<\/p>\n

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has killed at least 67 people in a mountainous rural area in western China, officials and state media say.<\/p>\n

Many others were trapped under houses and troops were dispatched to the area on Wednesday amid fears that many residents could be without shelter in temperatures below freezing.<\/p>\n

The quake and at least three aftershocks \u2013 some more than 6.0 in magnitude – that struck the ethnic Tibetan town of Yushu in Qinghai province, on the Tibetan plateau, caused many low, brick buildings to collapse.<\/p>\n

Most of the region’s low residential buildings had fallen, Huang Limin, a government official in Yushu, told state television.<\/p>\n

Zhuo De, a resident of Yushu who spoke by phone from the capital of Qinghai province after contacting his family in Yushu, said “maybe dozens were injured, maybe more – it’s hard to say”.<\/p>\n

“The homes are built with thick walls and are strong, but if they collapsed they could hurt many people inside.”<\/p>\n

People from the Yushu prefecture highway department were frantically trying to dig out colleagues trapped in a collapsed building, Ji Guodong, a department official, said by telephone.<\/p>\n

The quake, with a depth of 10km, was centred in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n

The Tibetan plateau is regularly shaken by earthquakes, but casualties are usually minimal because so few people live there.<\/p>\n

The foothills to the south and east of the area are home to herders and Tibetan monasteries, while the area to the north and west is arid and largely empty.<\/p>\n

Source: Agencies
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