CHINA HITS WITH EARTHQUAKE

Rescue team of China taking out people from collapsed building 

A major earthquake in southern Chinese state of Sichuan hit by a magnitude of 6 Richter scale on late Monday night killing about 11 people and injured in between 120-122 people. The Ministry of Emergency Management has sent firefighting rescue team and other rescue crew. The Ministry of Emergency Management and the Nation Food and Strategic Reserves Administration have sent supply of food and 5000 tent, 10,000 folding beds and 20,000 quilts (a warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabric and kept in place by lines of stitching) to the earthquake prone area.

The epicentre was 16 kilometre deep the surface such shallow earthquake can damage much of the construction and building gets collapsed easily.

 

The epicenter is point directly above the hypocentre or focus the point where earthquake or an underground explosion originates

 This the province of Sichuan (the highlighted with red boundary lines) which is very near to our state of Arunachal Pradesh. As there is no effect on Arunachal Pradesh of the earthquake as for so no report has come.