1 killed, 15 hurt in Sichuan quake
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A WOMAN was killed and 15 people were injured yesterday when a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck Kangding County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
The woman in her 70s died after being hit on the head by falling debris, said Chen Yunbing, a doctor at Ganzi People’s Hospital.
Fifteen people were injured, and two residential building collapsed, according to authorities in Kangding, a county in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
The tremor, whose epicenter was in the town of Tagong, 37 kilometers from the county seat, hit at a depth of 18 kilometers at 4:55pm, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
A total of 95 aftershocks had been reported as of press time, with the strongest measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale.
Minor cracks appeared in several buildings at Kangding airport near the epicenter, but flights were not affected, said Tan Heng, a clerk at the airport.
About 100 students were in the Zuqing Primary School in Tagong when the quake hit. Cracks appeared in some buildings but none collapsed and no casualties were reported, said Mao Yu, head of the publicity department of Kangding.
People in Chengdu, the provincial capital, said they felt the quake strongly.
“The windows shook and people rushed out of the building,” a woman said.
Guo, a Kangding resident, said the tremor was powerful and caused several things in his home to fall to the floor.
The Sichuan Provincial Earthquake Administration launched a Grade I emergency response, the highest possible, and has sent teams to Kangding.
A 35-strong armed police rescue team arrived in Tagong two hours after the quake hit, while ambulances and at least 50 medical workers from across Sichuan have been dispatched to the quake-hit areas, the provincial health department said.
The Sichuan Power Co said it cut off the electricity supply to Tagong but has sent 11 generators to the town.
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