Relief Work Begins for Quake Victims in China
- 14 years ago
On Wednesday, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck China’s Qinghai Province. Residents in Yushu County fled the area after hundreds of homes were destroyed. Around 400 people were killed, and several others injured in the remote mountainous Tibetan plateau of southwest China.
Local officials took to the streets to assess the situation, and hundreds of troops have been dispatched to aid the quake victims.
Relief workers have begun to set up emergency accommodation for the thousands of people left homeless.
Rescue work continues through the night as people search for survivors.
Yushu is home to around 100,000 people, spread over a vast area. But the quake struck near the relatively highly-populated county seat of Jiegu.
The 6.2 miles deep quake was centered in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Tibetan plateau is regularly shaken by earthquakes.
Local officials took to the streets to assess the situation, and hundreds of troops have been dispatched to aid the quake victims.
Relief workers have begun to set up emergency accommodation for the thousands of people left homeless.
Rescue work continues through the night as people search for survivors.
Yushu is home to around 100,000 people, spread over a vast area. But the quake struck near the relatively highly-populated county seat of Jiegu.
The 6.2 miles deep quake was centered in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Tibetan plateau is regularly shaken by earthquakes.