A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Qinghai’s Goluo Prefecture early Saturday morning. The earthquake was strongly felt in Xining, Lanzhou and Chengdu. People flocked outside. (Weibo photo)
Late on May 21, major earthquakes struck Yunnan and Qinghai one after another. So far, the 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Guoluo, Qinghai has had 104 aftershocks and two highway bridges collapsed. And the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Yangbi County, Yunnan Province, has caused 3 deaths and 27 injuries. In addition, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake also occurred in Shangnan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province.
Yunnan Yangbi 6.4 earthquake has caused 3 deaths and 27 injuries
At 21:48 on May 21, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred in Yangbi County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province (25.67 degrees north latitude, 99.87 degrees east longitude), with a depth of 8,000 meters.
The CPC Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, informed the Committee, according to preliminary statistics, as of 6:00 on the 22nd, Yunnan Yangbi County, 6.4 magnitude earthquake caused 30 deaths and injuries, including 2 deaths in Yangbi County, 23 minor injuries, 3 serious injuries; Yongping County, 1 death; Dali City, 1 minor injuries.
The epicenter was 8 kilometers from Yangbi County, 37 kilometers from Dali City, and 294 kilometers from Kunming City.
Zhang Gang, who has lived in Dali for five years, told Mainland Cover News: “The ancient city of Dali is about 20 kilometers from the epicenter. The tremor was very strong. Especially at 9:48, it was the strongest, and the houses shook very loudly. Now people in the old city of Dali are heading outdoors and everyone is going to spend time outside. I am also going to spend the night in my car.”
A Mr. Lin, who lives in downtown Dali, said that after the strong tremor (on the 21st) in the evening, he and his family came to Pearl Square, which is a seven-minute drive from Dali Railway Station, and it was already crowded. Mr. Lin said that tonight, he plans to pitch a tent with his family to rest temporarily in this square.
In the past few days, Dali Yangbi earthquake series. According to local notification, May 18, 2021 at 18:49:30 to May 20, 2021 at 12:08:41, Yangbi County, Cang Shan West Town, Xiuling Village, near the village of pepper garden 17 consecutive earthquakes.
On the evening of the 21st, 12 earthquakes were recorded in the vicinity of Yangbi County within two hours, with the highest one reaching 6.4 magnitude.
The newspaper quoted Ms. Jiang, who has lived in Dali for many years, as saying that earthquakes have occurred frequently in Dali in recent days, with multiple earthquakes occurring each day, almost always at the same time.
Ms. Jiang’s circle of friends has recorded the earthquakes in Dali in recent days since May 18, “I remember that there was no earthquake except for the day of 5‧20 …… Almost every day, the earthquakes started at 8 o’clock in the evening, and each one lasted for a short time. The epicenter is only a dozen kilometers away from us, right at the back of Cang Shan, and before each quake you can hear a ‘boom’, your feet start to shake, and then the doors and windows all follow the click.”
“After the first earthquake (on the night of the 21st), it stopped for a short while and then started to shake again, feeling that this wave was much more intense than the previous one. The door, lights, has been shaking, and is shaking stop, I looked at the level 5.6, and feel a little scared.” Ms. Jiang described.
Almost all of the households in Ms. Jiang’s neighborhood ran out into the street and stood together inside the open space to chat. “Probably chatted for more than ten minutes, feeling that the problem is not too big, everyone will go home. I just climbed upstairs, the whole house began to shake up, very scary, the glass doors of the house are ringing, almost being scared to tears. I ran out of the house and found out later that it was actually a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.”
Ms. Shi, who was on a business trip to Dali, told the New Beijing News that she stayed in a 19th floor room at a hotel in Dali and was heading to her room through the corridor when the earthquake struck. “At once I felt I couldn’t stand and my feet were unstable. I thought it must be too late to run down from the 19th floor at this time, so I crouched in the corner with my hands on my head.” According to Ms. Shi, the strong tremor lasted for about ten seconds.
After the tremor passed, many residents from the room rushed out, have to run downstairs, some residents choose to take the elevator downstairs. Soon, the outside of the hotel building was filled with citizens and residents, some of whom ran out in their bathrobes and bare feet before they could change clothes.
The Chinese Communist Party official media reported that when the earthquake occurred, a truck was hit by a rock fall caused by the earthquake in the Longbone Rock section of Yangbi County, Yangbi Township, Ma Ning Line, and one person inside the car died on the spot and one person was trapped. There are two couples in the car, the husband was hit by the earthquake rock fall has died, the wife was injured and trapped in the car.
According to Yangbi County, Yunnan Province, as of 1:50 on the 22nd, Yangbi County 6.4 magnitude earthquake has caused 20,192 households, 72,317 people affected, 12,882 houses damaged.
The earthquake was felt by netizens in Kunming, Chuxiong, Lijiang, Lincang, Xiangyun, Eryuan, Shimonoseki, and Panzhihua, Sichuan, and many other places.
The earthquake was located in northwest Yunnan, and the nearest fault was the Vixi-Qiao Hou Fault. As of May 21, 23:35, Yangbi 6.4 magnitude earthquake sequence occurred 20 times more than 3, including 8 times 3.0 to 3.9, 8 times 4.0 to 4.9, 3 times 5.0 to 5.9, and 1 time 6.0 to 6.9.
According to expert analysis, the Yangbi earthquake area should also pay attention to the occurrence of subsequent magnitude 5 earthquakes.
The earthquake occurred in Yangbi County is a Yi autonomous county, is the closest to the capital of Dali “satellite city” and Dali’s “back garden”, is also a major transportation and material distribution center in western Yunnan and Yunnan’s important channel to connect Southeast Asia, South Asia.
Aftershocks of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Qinghai Guolu more than 100 times two highway bridges collapsed
Following the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Yangbi, Yunnan Province, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurred at 2:04 p.m. on May 22 in Mado County, Goluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with a depth of 17,000 meters.
The land media reported that “lying in bed felt the left and right swaying, and the water in the fish tank rattled.” Mr. Lu, a citizen of Xining, said. The report said that the second bridge at Drinking Horse Beach in Maduo County collapsed, and the driver was trapped on the bridge and could not move.
It was reported that the earthquake was generally felt throughout the province of Qinghai, the city of Maduo County and the town of Huashixia and Huanghe Township were strongly felt, with individual fences collapsing.
As of 4:35 a.m. on the 22nd, a total of 104 aftershocks were recorded, with 40 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more, the largest being 4.6.
In addition, several earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or more occurred in Machin County, Guoluo Prefecture, near Mado County, and a 4.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 3:03 on the 22nd.
Affected by the earthquake, part of the road bridge collapse in Qinghai, Yucong high-speed Noma Tan No. 2 Bridge, Huajiu high-speed Changma Bridge collapse, two highways closed for investigation. In addition, the national and provincial trunk lines are seriously damaged deformation rumble, is being repaired.
In addition, at 4:05 on May 22, a 3.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Henan County, Huangnan State, Qinghai (34.29 degrees north latitude, 101.92 degrees east longitude), with a depth of 19,000 meters.
At 7:59 p.m. on May 22, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred in Shangnan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province (33.29 degrees north latitude, 110.80 degrees east longitude), with a depth of 17,000 meters.
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