The cold winter low temperature shorten the gold rescue time of the Gansu Jishi Mountain earthquake. This most serious earthquake in China in the past ten years, the number of victims is expected to continue to rise in the next few days.

Located at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai Province, Linxia State County, Lingxia County, occurred on Monday (December 18) a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. At least 127 people were killed and more than 700 people were injured.

This is an earthquake with the largest number of victims after the earthquake in Yunnan, which caused 617 people to be killed in August 2014.The last strong earthquake in Gansu was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Dingxi City in July 2013. At that time, 95 people were killed.

The 21st Century Economic Herald of Chinese Media quoted Chen Huizhong, a former researcher at the Institute of Earthquake Forecast of the China Earthquake Administration, said that the cause of serious casualties caused by the earthquake, including shallow sources, relatively dense population in the earthquake area, and poor house resistance.Most of the residents fell asleep when the earthquake occurred and missed emergency shelter.

Internet videos showed that many people escaped from the door to avoid the earthquake at the time of the earthquake, and then sat on the outside of the outdoor to warm the fire to resist the cold.

China News Weekly quoted Wang Du, the captain of the Sky Disaster Rescue Center of Gansu, said that the biggest challenge of this rescue was low temperature.At present, the local minimum temperature is over minus 10 degrees. The trapped persons are facing greater risks. Gold rescue time is shorter than the conventional 72 hours.

The deputy director of the Emergency Rescue Special Committee of the China Disaster Defense Association, and the former director of the Training Department of the Emergency Search and Rescue Center of the China Earthquake Administration, pointed out to China News Agency that the lowest temperature of the late earthquake area on Tuesday (19th) reached minus 16 degrees Celsius.Speeding up search and rescue, tonight may be the last chance to save people. "

Gao Xiaoming, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Earthquake Administration, said at a press conference on Tuesday morning that according to the comprehensive analysis of the structure of the earthquake area, historical earthquake activities, and seismic sequence types, it is believed that in recent daysThe possibility of strong Yu Zhen.

China's official instructions on the Gansu earthquake, requiring full efforts to carry out search and rescue, properly resettle the affected people, and work hard to ensure the safety of the people's lives and property.Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council, also made instructions, demanding that he will make every effort to organize rescue and rescue, search and rescue personnel, and cure the wounded to reduce the casualties to the greatest efforts.

Zhang Guoqing, Vice Premier of the State Council, led the working group on Tuesday and rushed to the disaster area to guide the earthquake relief.The official has dispatched more than 4,000 fire rescue team members, public security police officers and troops to the disaster area. The national emergency medical rescue teams near Gansu, such as Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Ningxia also went to support.

The Ministry of Finance of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently dialed the Central Natural Disaster Restaurant for the Central Natural Disaster Relief funds (RMB, Same, Sim of 38 million) to Gansu and Qinghai.Emergency reconstruction of the central budget after the disaster.

Russian President Putin sent a condolences to the Chinese official to mourn and wish the victims and wish the wounded.Recovery as soon as possible.Taiwan Tsai Ing -wen posted on social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in English and simplified words to mourn the victims and family members, saying that Taiwan is willing to provide necessary assistance.