A magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, China, which has killed more than 100 people in Gansu and Qinghai.
According to China CCTV News and Xinhua News Agency, at 23:59 on Monday (December 18), a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred in Ji Shishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu, with a depth of 10 kilometers.
As of now, the earthquake has killed 100 people in Gansu and 11 people in Qinghai in neighboring provinces, and some infrastructure such as water, electricity, transportation, and communications was damaged.
After the earthquake, Chinese officials instructed the earthquake, requiring full efforts to conduct search and rescue, properly resettle the affected people, and do their best to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people.Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang made instructions.
The Chinese State Council's Earthquake Resistance Headquarters and Emergency Management Department raised the national earthquake emergency response to the second level.
The rescue forces of all parties emergency assistance, investigating search and rescue, wounded treatment, transfer of resettlement, disaster verification, infrastructure repair and other earthquake relief.
China's National Comprehensive Fire Rescue Team dispatched a total of 1,440 fire rescue personnel rushed to the disaster area to rescue the disaster area. 1,603 fire rescue workers in Gansu and surrounding provinces have gathered to stand for a good job of re -regional reinforcements.
