The number of deaths caused by the earthquake in China It rose to 131 and the injured numbered almost a thousand. as rescue teams dig through the rubble at a time when the The country faces negative temperatures. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck shortly before midnight Monday in Jishishan county, near the border of Gansu and Qinghai provinces. destroying and damaging more than 150 thousand homesaccording to state media.
Followed by several strong aftershocks, the earthquake triggered mud, landslides, and damaged power lines and other local infrastructure “to varying degrees.” On Wednesday morning, authorities reported that the official death toll had risen to 131 and 782 injured in Gansu and 18 dead and 198 injured in Qinghai.
A catastrophe that occurred in the middle of a cold wave that lasts several days and that spreads in most of China. The high altitude area in the northwest of the country reached -16ºC, which rescue efforts hampered.
Source: TSF
