Special
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Professionals and materials are
airdropped for operations to blow a barrier lake at Tangjiashan, Beichuan
County, which was formed by landslides after the May 12 earthquake and now
blocks the river Jianhe.(Xinhua Photo)
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BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from China's May 12 earthquake increased by more than 2,100 to 67,183 as of midday Tuesday, according to the Information Office of the State Council.
A total of 361,822 people were injured and 20,790 others are missing in the 8.0-magnitude quake that struck the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12.
More than 45.61 million people were affected and about 15 million have been relocated, according to the office.
As of 7 p.m. on Monday, the quake had left 66,674 dead and 350,133 injured in Sichuan alone. A total of 83,988 people had been rescued and more than 6.7 million had been relocated.
A total of 64,719 bodies had been buried in the province.
Hospitals have treated 84,810 injured, of whom 54,374 have been discharged, while 16,288 remain hospitalized and 6,363 have been transferred to other parts of the country for treatment.
As of Monday, disaster relief workers had relocated 698,302 people to safe areas and dug 6,541 survivors from ruined buildings.
By Tuesday noon, Beichuan Township still had no electricity. The power in Jiangyou and Pengzhou counties had been restored.
Meanwhile, 566,400 tents had been delivered to quake-affected areas as of Tuesday noon, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.
More than 3.5 million quilts and 8.34 million items of clothing had been sent to the quake-hit region, it added.
About 450,000 tonnes of fuel and 940,000 tonnes of coal were also sent to the region, it said.
As of Monday, 1,600 temporary homes had been set up in the quake zone and 4,000 were under construction.
By Tuesday, 29,523 kilometers of the 32,939 kilometers of damaged roads had been repaired.
No aftershocks measuring at or above 4 on the Richter scale have been monitored in southwest Sichuan Province from Monday noon to midday Tuesday, while 226 very feeble shocks below magnitude 3.9 were detected in the area, the China Seismological Bureau reported.
However, two fresh aftershocks struck earthquake-hit areas in southwest China on Tuesday afternoon.
A 5.4-magnitude aftershock hit Qingchuan County in Sichuan Province at about 4:03 p.m. and another 5.7-magnitude aftershock hit neighboring Ningqiang County in Shaanxi Province, according to the China National Seismological Network.
As of 2 p.m. on Tuesday, donations from home and abroad to China's quake-hit regions had reached 32.7 billion yuan (4.67 billion U.S. dollars), up 1.8 billion yuan from the previous day, the Information Office said.
So far, 9.4 billion yuan in cash and relief materials had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.
The government disaster relief fund for quake-stricken areas had hit 19.2 billion yuan as of 2 p.m. on Tuesday, up 2.6 billion yuan from the previous day, figures from the office showed.
The fund included 15.13 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.09 billion yuan from the local budget.
Two fresh aftershocks hit China quake
zones
CHENGDU, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Two fresh aftershocks struck
earthquake-hit areas in southwest China Tuesday afternoon, as the nationwide
death toll from a massive quake two weeks ago has risen to 67,183.
A 5.4-magnitude aftershock hit Qingchuan County in Sichuan
Province at about 4:03 p.m. and another 5.7-magnitude aftershock hit the
neighboring Ningqiang County in Shaanxi Province, according to the China
National Seismological Network. Full story
5.4-magnitude aftershock hits China
quake zone
CHENGDU, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Another aftershock struck
southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday afternoon, and it was strongly felt
in the provincial capital Chengdu.
The aftershock hit the quake zone at about 4:05 p.m., a
local resident surnamed Jiang said. Its magnitude was not immediately known. Full story
Expert: China aftershocks may continue
for months
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Residents sleep outside to avoid the
aftershock likely to happen in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's
Sichuan Province on the early morning of May 20, 2008. (Xinhua/Wang
Jianmin)
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BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The aftershocks following May
12 earthquake that devastated southwest China are likely to continue for two or
three months, said an expert on seismology.
"Judging from previous earthquakes of a similar magnitude,
this time the aftershocks may last for two or three months, and it's not
relatively long," said He Yongnian, former deputy director of China
Seismological Bureau (CSB) and a seismologist, in an online interview on
xinhuanet.com. Full story
Donations to China quake zone exceed
32 bln yuan
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- As of 2 p.m. Tuesday,
donations from home and abroad to China's quake-hit regions had reached 32.7
billion yuan (4.67 billion U.S. dollars), up 1.8 billion yuan from the previous
day, according to the Information Office of the State Council. Full story
China preparing to drain swelling
quake lake
MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers are
preparing to dynamite the barrier of a swelling quake lake, which has posed a
new threat after a devastating 8.0-magnitude temblor ravaged southwest China's
Sichuan Province.
Helicopters had airdropped professionals and
materials for the operation by 7:49 a.m. Monday onto the dam of the barrier lake
at Tangjiashan in Beichuan County, which was formed by landslides that blocked a
local river known as Jianhe after the May 12 earthquake. Full story
Armed police brigade arrive at major
quake lake in Sichuan
TANGJIASHAN, Sichuan, May 26 (Xinhua) -- A group of armed
policemen arrived on foot at the Tangjiashan quake lake in southwest China's
Sichuan Province around 00:35 a.m. Monday and immediately began work to defuse
the danger of a major flooding.Full story
Rescuers hiking to large Sichuan quake
lake as flood alarm grows
MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 25 (Xinhua) -- About 1,800 armed
police officers and People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were hiking on
Sunday toward an expanding "quake lake" in southwest Sichuan Province, hoping to
blast away its landslide barrier before it bursts and causes a flood.Full story
