Chinanews.com, May 27. According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, in the early morning of May 22, after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred in Maduo County, Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province, the Ministry of Emergency Management quickly launched a second-level emergency response to a particularly major earthquake disaster. The State Council Huang Ming, deputy commander of the Earthquake Relief Headquarters and Director of the Emergency Management Department, continued to dispatch earthquake rescue and relief work, dispatched a national comprehensive fire rescue team to carry out rescue and rescue work, and dispatched a working group to the disaster area overnight to guide and help local earthquake relief.
Data map: In the early morning of May 22, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred in Maduo County, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
The picture shows 67 houses in the Changmahe industrial area collapsed after the earthquake.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Yun
According to statistics, as of 20 o'clock on May 25, the earthquake caused 35,000 people in 8 counties in Guoluo, Yushu and other places to be affected, 18 people were injured, and 23,000 people were urgently transferred and resettled.
On May 26, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the National Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves allocated 3,000 cotton tents, 10,000 cotton coats, 5,000 quilts, 10,000 folding beds, 1,000 heating stoves and 200 simple toilets to Qinghai Province. We will wait for the relief supplies from the central government and support local governments to ensure the basic livelihood of the affected people, such as the transfer and resettlement.
At present, various disaster relief work in the disaster area is being carried out vigorously and orderly.