China News Service, Yibin, April 6 (Reporter Liu Zhongjun) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Emergency Management Department and the Yibin Emergency Management Bureau on the 6th that the 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Xingwen County, Yibin City has caused 3 Xingwen and Changning counties. 911 people in townships were affected.

  At 7:50 on April 06, an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred in Xianfeng Miao Township, Xingwen County, Yibin City (28.22 degrees north latitude, 105.03 degrees east longitude), with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.

  After the earthquake, Yibin City immediately launched the earthquake level III emergency response, established the earthquake disaster relief headquarters, and successively mobilized emergency, fire and related professional rescue teams to rush to the epicenter and surrounding areas, and carried out comprehensive rescue and disposal, disaster inspection, infrastructure hidden danger investigation, Secondary disaster prevention and control, etc.

The earthquake caused the mountain to collapse and the road was interrupted (video screenshot).

Photo courtesy of Yibin Fire

  As of 14:00 on April 6, the earthquake had affected 911 people in three towns and towns in Yibin City, Xingwen County (Xianfeng Miao Township, Zhoujia Town) and Changning County (Meidong Town), and 741 people were transferred for emergency escape. Generally, 619 households and 671 rooms were damaged.

Two slopes in Qunyu Community, Xianfeng Miao Township, Xingwen County, on the S444 line of Provincial Highway S444 from Xingwen to Didong Road in Gongxian County, collapsed, causing the road to be interrupted.

  At present, the earthquake investigation working group has rushed to the earthquake area to carry out earthquake investigation work.

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