China News Service, Beijing, September 16 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) According to the China Seismological Network, at 4:33 on September 16, 2021, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Lu County (29.20 degrees north latitude, 105.34 degrees east longitude), Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. The focal depth is 10 kilometers.
After receiving the report, Huang Ming, deputy commander of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief Command and Director of the Emergency Management Department, immediately rushed to the Ministry’s Command Center to connect the China Earthquake Administration with the Sichuan Provincial Government, the Provincial Emergency Management Department, the Fire Rescue Corps, and Luxian County. Comrades, dispatch to understand the disaster situation, guide the survey, search and rescue work, and dispatch the national comprehensive fire-fighting and rescue force to strengthen the earthquake area.
The Emergency Management Department initiated a three-level earthquake emergency response and sent a working group led by the deputy director of the China Earthquake Administration to the scene to guide the earthquake relief work.
Sichuan Province has initiated a secondary response to the earthquake emergency.
The 890 officers and soldiers of the national comprehensive fire rescue team near the earthquake area dispatched rescue immediately.
The Emergency Management Department has deployed more than 4,600 national comprehensive fire rescue teams in the surrounding areas to quickly assemble and simultaneously pull the drills.
As of 7:30, the earthquake caused 2 deaths, 3 serious injuries, 57 minor injuries, and some houses were damaged. Disaster relief and nuclear disaster work are now underway.
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