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At least 400 people by a powerful earthquake hit the province of Qinghai in northwest China, with a magnitude of 6.9, while others commented under the rubble, according to local officials.

The media quoted the paint tray for a government official as saying that the earthquake also resulted in the fall of the 8 thousand injured.

The Chinese authorities said that rescue teams managed to recover hundreds injured from the rubble, while about 5 have been sent thousands of medic specialists in earthquakes and resulting in the region.


3 after the earthquake and aftershocks reached its strength to 5.8 degrees
Was followed by three aftershocks of the earthquake reached 5.8 degrees to power by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake devastated the remote Yushu county, about 500 km southwest of the provincial capital, Ksenning at 23:49 GMT, corresponding to 07.49 local time.

The population of the region hit by the quake, mostly farmers and nomads who belong to two ethnic groups and Tibetan Monguly also that this area contains large reserves of coal, lead and copper.

Chinese television broadcast pictures of the buildings destroyed and people dig through the rubble for their possessions under the authorities started rescue operations.

Yushu and away hundreds of kilometers from the nearest airport to, and believes that rescue teams would need some time before reaching the quake zone.


Was adjacent to the Sichuan province of Qinghai has witnessed a strong earthquake in 2008

The news agency quoted Chinese, Xinhua, a local official named Hwang-right saying, "destroyed many houses consisted of one floor in buildings that holds together when formed from many floors, but many cracks appeared in it."

Another official told reporters that "85 percent of the houses near the epicenter of the quake destroyed ... burying many of the students after the collapse of part of a vocational school."

The deputy head of news at Channel Karsom Nima of the County of Yushu "I asked the students to gather in schools yards in the open air, although the school buildings did not crumble."

Trice

"The buildings were destroyed in a trice ... It was a terrible earthquake ... in a small garden, a Buddhist temple tower collapsed."

"The people came out to fresh air and gathered in front of their homes in an attempt to find members of their families."


Strong earthquake struck the remote Yushu County

One of the people in Yushu county, in a telephone interview with the BBC's "Homes are on the walls thick and strong but if they broke down hurt a lot of the population within it."

It is said that earthquakes are common in Tibet but the casualty is usually very limited due to the small number of people who live there, as it is, for example, the population of Yushu epicenter, near Tibet, about 80 thousand people, according to according to government figures.

It should be noted that the worst earthquake to hit China in recent years occurred in May 2008 with a magnitude of eight degrees and left 87 thousand dead and missing, at least in Sichuan province near the region hit by the earthquake Wednesday.

The Chinese government punished the activists they prepared lists of the devastating earthquake and have suggested that the high death toll among students in 2008 due to non-school building according to the specifications are correct.


bbc.com