An Article of an Earthquake in China

This article that I have chosen is a earthquake that happened in China. It was said that this earthquake had the largest measuring magnitude of 5.7. After the earthquake, at least 80 were killed and 700 were injured. This earthquake was the heaviest in the rural area in Yiliang country. One of the elementary school collapsed in the earthquake. Authorities are not sure if the children are killed. In 2008, there was an earthquake in Yunnan’s neighbouring Sichuan province, which killed 80 000 people. Thousands of children were killed after shoddily built schools collapsed. In Luozehe, rescue workers strained to move rocks out of the road. They had to clear the road to avoid chaos in traffic. Civil affair departments said that the earthquakes destroyed 6650 houses and damaged 430 000. More than 100 000residents evacuated and 100 000 others are in need of relocation. Officials in Guizhou province said nearly 28,000 people were affected by the quakes, with 18 houses toppled and more than 10,000 houses damaged. The first earthquake which reached a magnitude of 5.7 struck at 11.19am on Friday. There were 16 aftershocks, the strongest of which reached measured a magnitude of 5.6. Roads to the area had been damaged very badly and the police, fire fighters and volunteers were working to repair them. Landslides and rock falls had also caused significant damage and were hampering the workers effortto reach the affected villages. The Chinese government was under heightened pressure to respond quickly to potential resources like food and water. One person lamented on Sina Corp.’s popular Weibo micro blogging service said that a sub-6 magnitude earthquake and again, schools collapsed. This idea presented is not relevant to what I have learnt in Geography, but I have learnt new things from this article like the effects of the earthquake in China.