Earth Shaken: flurry of powerful earthquakes rattle eastern region of the planet
Posted on April 20, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
Earth reeling from tremors in the East:
Massive earthquakes have hit Iran/Pakistan, the Kuril Islands, Papua,
NG, the Japanese Islands, Uganda, and Sichuan China, where more than 156
people have been killed in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake.
April 20, 2013 – SICHUAN, CHINA – A strong 6.6
magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of
southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156
people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed
almost 70,000 people in 2008. The earthquake, China’s worst in three
years, occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) in Lushan county near Ya’an city
and the epicenter had a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the U.S. Geological
Survey said. The quake was felt by residents in neighboring provinces
and in the provincial capital of Chengdu, causing many people to rush
out of buildings, according to accounts on China’s Twitter-like Sina
Weibo microblogging service. State media said 156 people had been
confirmed dead with more than 5,500 injured. President Xi Jinping and
Premier Li Keqiang said all efforts must be put into rescuing victims to
limit the death toll. After arriving at the disaster zone by
helicopter, Li directed earthquake relief efforts from a plaza in
Longmen Township in Lushan, Xinhua said. Li asked that a road be opened
to Baoxing County, one of the most affected by the earthquake, and that
rescuers “act quickly” in their efforts, Xinhua quoted Li as saying.
“The current most urgent issue is grasping the first 24 hours since the
quake’s occurrence, the golden time for saving lives,” Xinhua news
agency quoted Li as saying earlier. Xinhua said 6,000 troops were
heading to the area to help with rescue efforts. State television CCTV
said only emergency vehicles were being allowed into Ya’an, though
Chengdu airport had reopened. Most of the deaths were concentrated in
Lushan, where water and electricity were cut off. Pictures on Chinese
news sites showed toppled buildings and people in bloodied bandages
being treated in tents outside the hospital, which appeared only lightly
damaged. Rescuers in Lushan had pulled 32 survivors out of rubble,
Xinhua said. In villages closest to the epicenter, almost all low rise
houses and buildings had collapsed, according to footage broadcast on
state television. “We are very busy right now, there are about eight or
nine injured people, the doctors are handling the cases,” said a doctor
at a Ya’an hospital who gave her family name as Liu. The hospital was
seeing head and leg injuries, she added. The China Meteorological
Association warned of a possibility of landslides occurring in Lushan
county on Saturday and Sunday, the agency said in a statement on its
website. A resident in Chengdu, 140 km (85 miles) from Ya’an city, told
Xinhua he was on the 13th floor of a building when he felt the quake.
The building shook for about 20 seconds and he saw tiles fall from
nearby buildings. Ya’an is a city of 1.5 million people and is
considered one of the birthplaces of Chinese tea culture. It is also the
home to one of China’s main centers for protecting the giant panda.
“There are still shakes and tremors and our area is safe. The pandas are
safe,” said a spokesman with Ya’an’s Bifengxia nature park, a tourism
park that houses more than 100 pandas. Shouts and screams were heard in
the background while Reuters was on the telephone with the spokesman.
“There was just an aftershock, an aftershock, our office is safe,” he
said. Numerous aftershocks jolted the area, the largest of which was
magnitude 5.1. Sichuan is one of the four major natural-gas-producing
provinces in China, and its output accounts for about 14 percent of the
nation’s total. The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the magnitude
at 7, but later revised it down. The devastating May 2008 quake was 7.9
magnitude. –Reuters
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Posted on April 20, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
Earth reeling from tremors in the East:
Massive earthquakes have hit Iran/Pakistan, the Kuril Islands, Papua,
NG, the Japanese Islands, Uganda, and Sichuan China, where more than 156
people have been killed in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake.
April 20, 2013 – SICHUAN, CHINA – A strong 6.6
magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of
southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156
people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed
almost 70,000 people in 2008. The earthquake, China’s worst in three
years, occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) in Lushan county near Ya’an city
and the epicenter had a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the U.S. Geological
Survey said. The quake was felt by residents in neighboring provinces
and in the provincial capital of Chengdu, causing many people to rush
out of buildings, according to accounts on China’s Twitter-like Sina
Weibo microblogging service. State media said 156 people had been
confirmed dead with more than 5,500 injured. President Xi Jinping and
Premier Li Keqiang said all efforts must be put into rescuing victims to
limit the death toll. After arriving at the disaster zone by
helicopter, Li directed earthquake relief efforts from a plaza in
Longmen Township in Lushan, Xinhua said. Li asked that a road be opened
to Baoxing County, one of the most affected by the earthquake, and that
rescuers “act quickly” in their efforts, Xinhua quoted Li as saying.
“The current most urgent issue is grasping the first 24 hours since the
quake’s occurrence, the golden time for saving lives,” Xinhua news
agency quoted Li as saying earlier. Xinhua said 6,000 troops were
heading to the area to help with rescue efforts. State television CCTV
said only emergency vehicles were being allowed into Ya’an, though
Chengdu airport had reopened. Most of the deaths were concentrated in
Lushan, where water and electricity were cut off. Pictures on Chinese
news sites showed toppled buildings and people in bloodied bandages
being treated in tents outside the hospital, which appeared only lightly
damaged. Rescuers in Lushan had pulled 32 survivors out of rubble,
Xinhua said. In villages closest to the epicenter, almost all low rise
houses and buildings had collapsed, according to footage broadcast on
state television. “We are very busy right now, there are about eight or
nine injured people, the doctors are handling the cases,” said a doctor
at a Ya’an hospital who gave her family name as Liu. The hospital was
seeing head and leg injuries, she added. The China Meteorological
Association warned of a possibility of landslides occurring in Lushan
county on Saturday and Sunday, the agency said in a statement on its
website. A resident in Chengdu, 140 km (85 miles) from Ya’an city, told
Xinhua he was on the 13th floor of a building when he felt the quake.
The building shook for about 20 seconds and he saw tiles fall from
nearby buildings. Ya’an is a city of 1.5 million people and is
considered one of the birthplaces of Chinese tea culture. It is also the
home to one of China’s main centers for protecting the giant panda.
“There are still shakes and tremors and our area is safe. The pandas are
safe,” said a spokesman with Ya’an’s Bifengxia nature park, a tourism
park that houses more than 100 pandas. Shouts and screams were heard in
the background while Reuters was on the telephone with the spokesman.
“There was just an aftershock, an aftershock, our office is safe,” he
said. Numerous aftershocks jolted the area, the largest of which was
magnitude 5.1. Sichuan is one of the four major natural-gas-producing
provinces in China, and its output accounts for about 14 percent of the
nation’s total. The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the magnitude
at 7, but later revised it down. The devastating May 2008 quake was 7.9
magnitude. –Reuters
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