China News Service, September 16 According to the official WeChat news of the Ministry of Emergency Management, at 4:33 on September 16, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in Lu County, Luzhou City, Sichuan.
As of 16:00 on the 16th, the earthquake caused 121,000 people in Luzhou and other places to be affected, 3 people were killed and 100 people were injured; more than 1,400 houses collapsed, more than 6,400 were seriously damaged, and 29,000 were generally damaged.
After receiving the report, the Office of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief and Disaster Relief Headquarters and the Emergency Management Department immediately launched a three-level earthquake emergency response.
Huang Ming, deputy commander of the State Council’s Earthquake Disaster Relief Headquarters and Minister of Emergency Management Department, continued to dispatch personnel search and rescue, disaster verification, earthquake monitoring, mass resettlement and secondary disaster prevention and other earthquake relief work, and dispatched national comprehensive fire and rescue forces to assist the earthquake area , To coordinate the member units of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief Headquarters to implement various emergency response measures.
A working group sent by the Emergency Management Department arrived at the scene at noon to guide the earthquake relief work.
The Ministry of Emergency Management has, in conjunction with the State Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves, urgently allocated 2,000 tents, 10,000 summer quilts and 10,000 folding beds for disaster relief from the central government to support local governments in the resettlement and relief of disaster-stricken people.
More than 800 officers and soldiers from the national comprehensive firefighting and rescue team were dispatched for the first time, rescuing 27 trapped people, evacuating 944 people in distress, and rescuing 104 tons of transferred materials.
54 search and rescue teams have conducted 3 rounds of comprehensive inspections of 120 villages and 1,437 houses in 12 villages and towns in Luzhou, Zigong, Neijiang and other disaster-stricken towns, eliminated 223 risks, assisted in setting up 5 concentrated resettlement sites for the victims, and erected 206 tents.
The fire rescue team received a total of 29 related alarms, including 3 houses collapsed, 2 residential fires, 1 high-concentration liquor leak from a wine storage warehouse, and 23 general alarms, all of which were effectively dealt with.
Under the unified deployment of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief Headquarters, the member units of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief Headquarters acted quickly in accordance with their duties. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology guided Sichuan to carry out a general survey of industrial enterprises, focusing on the damage to natural gas, chemical, liquor, gas stations and power lines. The Ministry of Natural Resources sent a working team to the disaster area to guide the localities in the investigation of hidden geological hazards, monitoring and early warning. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development launched a three-level earthquake emergency response and guided the housing and urban-rural construction departments of Sichuan Province and Luzhou City to send teams to the disaster area. The Ministry of Transport immediately asked the State Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the State Post Bureau and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation to learn about the transportation situation. According to reports, 12 high-speed rail lines and 2 ordinary lines have been investigated for outages. Civil aviation infrastructure and postal operations have not been affected. The expressways in Luzhou are normal, and individual rockfalls and landslides on national and provincial trunk lines have been cleared. The Ministry of Water Resources instructs local governments to carry out earthquake damage investigations for water conservancy projects. The National Health Commission dispatched a national emergency medical rescue team and national medical and public health experts to the disaster area.