Aerial photography of the earthquake disaster. Xinjiang earthquake provides Photography
Zhongxin.com, Ta county, May 13 (Reporter Zhu Jingchao, Wang Xiaojun) on the 13th, the reporter learned from the press conference of the 5.5-magnitude earthquake intensity map of kashkurgan, Xinjiang (hereinafter referred to as Ta county), taxian County is located on the taashkurgan earthquake fault zone. There is a rupture in the fault zone. The rupture location is around kuziroll village, the epicenter of the earthquake. The earthquake scale is not high, but it is destructive, causing house collapse and casualties.
At the press conference, Xinjiang earthquake administration drew the “magnitude 5.5 earthquake intensity map of Xinjiang Ta county” through in-depth investigation of earthquake damage in disaster areas, which was officially released on the same day. The intensity map showed that the intensity of the extreme earthquake area reached VII degrees.
All units participating in the rescue on the same day attended the conference. Photo by Wang Xiaojun
Earthquake Intensity refers to the impact caused by earthquake, mainly including building damage, natural environment changes, etc. Generally speaking, with the gradual distance to epicenter of plus-sized, the intensity value will gradually decrease, and its spatial distribution is the earthquake intensity map. The earthquake intensity map can illustrate the distribution of earthquake disasters.
According to reports, the earthquake-causing structure was the Tashkent Kurgan fault, and a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred in history. The highest intensity of the earthquake-stricken area is VII degree, and the total area of VI degree area and above is 3288 square kilometers, which mainly caused the disaster in 9 townships in Ta county.
Wang Yanjie, deputy county magistrate of Ta county, said at the press conference: “As of 12 o’clock on the 13th, the earthquake killed 8 people, injured 31 people, and affected 25600 people. The damaged area of urban and rural buildings was 1.5237 million square kilometers, 3015 collapsed houses with 537 households.”
The earthquake scale is not high, but it is destructive. Hu Weihua, director of the Institute of Natural Disaster Prevention of Xinjiang Earthquake Administration, analyzed that taxian county was located in the kashkurgan earthquake fault zone, and there was a rupture in the fault zone. The rupture location was around kuziroller village in the epicenter. So the earthquake caused house collapse and casualties.
Local frontline rescue workers listened to the detailed interpretation of the reasons for the strong destructive earthquake by experts. Photo by Wang Xiaojun
In such a natural environment and harsh place as Pamir Plateau, the quality and structure of civil houses and stone-wood houses built by the public cannot meet the seismic standards. “This is also one of the reasons for the strong earthquake damage. The newly-built housing of the local government did not collapse basically.” Hu Weihua said.
Wang Yanjie said that at present, the affected people have been properly resettled and the planning and reconstruction work has been started to ensure that people live in new houses before winter.
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aerial photography earthquake disaster situation. Xinjiang earthquake provided photo zhongxin.com taxian county, May 13 (Reporter Zhu Jingchao Wang Xiaojun) on the 13th, the Reporter news from the earthquake intensity map of magnitude 5.5 in taskkkgan, Xinjiang (hereinafter referred to as taxian County)