CCTV***(Focus interview): At 23:59 on December 18, 6Level 2**, the depth of the epicenter is 10 kilometers, and some infrastructure such as water, electricity, transportation, and communications are damaged. After the incident, the general secretary made important instructions, calling for all-out search and rescue, proper resettlement of the affected people, and the greatest efforts to ensure the safety of people's lives and property. **A working group has been dispatched to the disaster area to guide the rescue and disposal work. All relevant departments and Gansu and Qinghai have organized forces to carry out emergency rescue.
At 23:59 on December 18, 6Magnitude 2**, with an epicenter depth of 10 km, caused a huge shaking of the building.
As of 13 o'clock today (December 19), this ** has caused 113 deaths, 536 injuries and 155393 houses in Gansu. In addition, ** also caused 13 people to be killed in Qinghai, and some water, electricity, transportation, communications and other infrastructure were damaged. After the incident, the Earthquake Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management upgraded the national emergency response to Level 2, and the National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management upgraded the national disaster relief emergency response to the second level.
Gao Xiaoming, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial ** Bureau: "This ** occurred in the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, located at the northern boundary of the Qaidam Republic massif, and the seismic fault is the fault on the northern edge of the Lazhi Mountain, which has frequent historical ** activities in the fault and the adjacent area, and since 1900, there have been 7 times of more than 5 degrees within 100 kilometers of the adjacent area**.
Han Shujun, second-level inspector of the Gansu Provincial Emergency Management Department: "The epicenter is located in Liugou Township, Jishishan County, 8 kilometers away from Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, 39 kilometers away from Linxia City, and 102 kilometers away from Lanzhou City. Lanzhou, Qingyang, Pingliang, Tianshui, Longnan, Dingxi, Wuwei, Jinchang and other ** senses are obvious. ”
Due to the high altitude and cold weather in the disaster area, the rescue and resettlement of personnel has become the most urgent task. **A working group has been dispatched to the disaster area to guide the rescue and disposal work. Gansu and Qinghai have organized forces to carry out emergency rescue and emergency rescue, and urgently allocated relief materials such as tents, folding beds, and quilts to the disaster areas, and made every effort to rescue the affected people. **After the incident, the National Fire and Rescue Administration made emergency dispatch to guide the rescue work, and multiple fire and rescue forces raced against time to investigate and search for the trapped people. The Gansu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps immediately launched a first-level response, and immediately dispatched a total of 9 professional search and rescue teams from Linxia, Lanzhou, Longnan, Gannan and Wuwei to the epicenter to carry out rescue.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning, in Kangjiao Village, Dahejia Town, a house collapsed, and firefighters searched the scene during the search and found that a woman was buried under the wall, and her body was pressed by heavy objects and injured in many places. To ensure the safety of the entire work area, firefighters secured the wall around the trapped woman to protect it, while carefully removing the heavy objects that were pressing on the trapped person.
Firefighters gently moved the trapped woman's body and quickly rescued her and sent her to the hospital**. At around 3 a.m., in Kexinmin Village, Dahejia Town, firefighters found 6 injured people and immediately transferred them. At around 5:30, firefighters rescued and transferred 5 trapped people in Zhoujia Village, Dahejia Town, Jishishan County. At around 8:40 a.m., when firefighters were investigating in the four communities of Dahejia Village, they found two more trapped people and quickly transferred them on stretchers.
* After the incident, the National Fire and Rescue Administration launched the emergency response of combat logistics support, and the Beijing and Yinchuan material reserves have prepared 15 life detectors, more than 2,300 sets (sets) of various power generation and lighting equipment, 3,000 sets of rescue support equipment such as individual tents, 1,000 coats, and 300 boxes of field emergency food.
Xiong Wei, the second-level commander of the National Fire and Rescue Administration: "After the incident, the National Fire and Rescue Bureau immediately launched the plan and urgently dispatched fire teams from Gansu and Qinghai and professional rescue teams to the scene for rescue. As of 5:30 a.m. today, a total of 1,168 people and 214 vehicles of the national comprehensive fire and rescue team have arrived in the disaster area to carry out rescue work under the unified leadership of the local party committee and the forward disaster relief headquarters. ”
* After the incident, the reporter immediately rushed to Dahejia Town, Jishishan County, which was the hardest-hit area. At 6 a.m., the first batch of relief supplies arrived at the scene, providing temporary housing for the damaged people.
In Zhoujia Village, Dahejia Town, the reporter saw that most of the houses in the village were damaged to varying degrees, and there were people. Due to the low temperature and power outage after the first time, it has brought a lot of difficulties to the rescue work, but the local people and disaster relief personnel still overcome the difficulties to rescue the trapped people.
Since the houses were so badly damaged that they could no longer live in them, it became a top priority to resettle the affected people, and material resources from all over the country continued to arrive in the affected areas. At noon, how to solve the lunch of the affected people?A beef noodle stall was set up at the resettlement site to provide free beef noodles to the affected people, so that they could have their first hot meal after the earthquake.
Liugou Township is the epicenter of this **, the township has a total of 2,534 households, 12,616 people, **, when it happened, the earthquake was very obvious, the shaking lasted about 30 seconds, and many people were woken up from their sleep or even shaken out of bed. **After the incident, there was a town-wide power outage. After emergency repairs, by 5 o'clock this morning, the power had been restored.
The terrain of Liugou Township is three mountains and two ravines, and the villagers' houses are mostly concentrated at the bottom of the mountain top and ditch, and they live relatively scattered. In addition, the previous snowfall did not melt, and the roads were slippery and difficult to navigate, which also brought certain challenges to the rescue. It is understood that after the accident, 14 people have been rescued in Liugou Township, and 2 seriously injured people have been transferred to higher-level hospitals for treatment. At present, the second round of carpet platoon is being carried out, and the 200 officers and men of the unit are divided into 10 groups, each with 20 people, to conduct investigation, search and rescue under the leadership of local cadres. As the daytime temperature rises today, visibility increases, and rescue efforts are more precise and forceful.
Up to now, more than 1,500 national comprehensive fire and rescue teams, more than 1,500 public security officers and police, and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers have been mobilized to rush to the disaster area. The Gansu Provincial Earthquake Relief Headquarters Office coordinated with the Provincial Food and Material Reserve Bureau to urgently dispatch the first batch of emergency supplies to the disaster area, including 2,600 cotton tents, 10,400 folding beds, quilts, and cotton mattresses, and 1,000 sets of stovesThe Provincial Department of Finance urgently allocated 20 million yuan in earthquake relief funds to help the disaster areas properly resettle the affected people. In addition, today the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management have urgently allocated 200 million yuan in natural disaster relief funds to Gansu and Qinghai provinces, including 1500 million yuan, Qinghai 0500 million yuan to support local earthquake relief work, ensure the safety of people's lives and property, and minimize disaster losses and impacts.
In addition to rescuing the affected people, it is also important to repair the communication network that has been damaged by **. A total of more than 130 base stations in Jishishan County have been affected, and the communication department is making every effort to get through.
After the disaster, the local telecom operator immediately activated the emergency response. Up to now, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Tower have dispatched a total of 362 emergency repair personnel, 95 emergency repair vehicles, 125 diesel engines, and 24 satellites. Seventy-nine affected base stations have been restored, and there have been no abnormal fluctuations in various network indicators.
At present, it is the cold winter season, the winter solstice is approaching, and the low temperature has a great impact on the post-disaster rescue, so the future weather conditions are also the focus of all parties. After the incident, the China Meteorological Administration launched the second-level emergency response of the disaster meteorological service, and released the latest meteorological information at any time.
It is reported that the average altitude of Jishishan County is 2,437 meters, the lowest altitude is 1,727 meters, and the highest altitude is 4,400 meters. For the past three years, the average temperature in the region in late December has been minus 76. The minimum temperature is minus 179℃。The meteorological department reminded that the temperature in the disaster area is low recently, the body feels cold, and the ultraviolet intensity is strong, so it is recommended that disaster relief personnel do a good job of cold protection and warmth, and pay attention to safety when heating in emergency tents.
When one side is in trouble, all sides support. After the disaster, various earthquake relief forces from ** to local governments acted quickly. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People's Armed Police Force (PAP) dispatched a number of rescue forces to the disaster area. Departments such as medical and health care, transportation, and electric power are actively rushing to the rescue, and relief materials are also being assembled in the affected areas. The weather is relatively cold at present, with the lowest temperature reaching minus 167 degrees Celsius. According to the comprehensive analysis, there is still a possibility of strong aftershocks of magnitude 5 in the earthquake area in recent days. Therefore, how to better rescue, quickly resettle the affected people, and prevent secondary disasters will be a more severe test for the rescue team. We will continue to pay close attention to the progress of this earthquake relief.