CCTV News:To pay attention to the news of the 6.5 earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan. As of 24: 00 on the 7th, 7 people had been killed in the earthquake, 260 people were injured and 67 people were still out of contact. According to the news released by Taiwan Province, among the original six injured mainland tourists, one tourist from Fujian was seriously injured earlier and died at around 9 o’clock last night. The number of victims changed from 6 to 7.
After the earthquake of magnitude 6.5, aftershocks continued. At 19: 13, 21: 06, 22: 19 and 23: 21 last night, earthquakes of magnitude 5.0, 4.8, 4.6 and 6.1 occurred again in the waters near Hualien respectively.
At present, according to the statistics of Taiwan Province Fire Department, four buildings collapsed and 40 roads were damaged to varying degrees. 35,000 households have no water supply and 200 households have no electricity. At present, three shelters have been opened in Hualien to accommodate 560 affected people.
Among the four buildings that collapsed obliquely, Yunmen Cuidi Building is the most serious. According to the news sent back by CCTV reporters last night, the search and rescue work of Yuncui Building was suspended last night due to the constant aftershocks.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council launched an emergency mechanism for Taiwan-related emergencies.
After the earthquake, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and ARATS launched an emergency response mechanism for Taiwan-related emergencies to understand the disaster situation and disaster relief. Yesterday (7th) morning, Zhang Zhijun, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, had an urgent telephone conversation with Fu Kunfeng, the head of Hualien County. Chen Deming, president of ARATS, called relevant parties in Hualien County to express deep condolences to the Taiwan Province compatriots killed in the earthquake, sincere condolences to the injured and affected Taiwan Province compatriots, and offered to provide disaster relief assistance including sending rescue teams. All-china federation of taiwan compatriots issued a letter of condolence at noon on the 7th, expressing his concern and sympathy to the villagers affected by the earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, and expressing his willingness to do everything possible to provide all help. He hoped that compatriots on both sides of the strait would unite as one, help each other hand and tide over the difficulties together.
China Red Cross provides millions of emergency relief funds.
After the earthquake, the Red Cross Society of China paid close attention to the disaster situation, and immediately contacted the Red Cross Society of Taiwan Province to learn about the disaster situation and sent a message of condolence to express its concern for the affected compatriots in Taiwan Province. In order to support the relief work of the Taiwan Province Red Cross, the China Red Cross decided to provide 1 million yuan of emergency relief funds to the Taiwan Province Red Cross for the humanitarian relief of the affected people. The Red Cross Society of China will continue to pay attention to the disaster situation and the progress of rescue, and will be ready to send rescue teams to Taiwan at any time according to the needs of disaster areas.
The National Tourism Administration reminds tourists not to travel to Hualien and its neighboring areas for the time being.
The National Tourism Administration reminds tourists to pay close attention to the earthquake risk in Taiwan Province and not to travel to Hualien and its adjacent areas in the near future; Prompt the travel agency to stop organizing tours or taking tours to the risk area, and ask the travel agency to organize tourists who have been in the area to adjust their trips and evacuate in time, take corresponding preventive measures, and properly do a good job in tourist safety. Ask for help in time in case of danger.
Taiwan Meteorological Department: A bigger earthquake is not ruled out.
The earthquake on the 6th hit Hualien hard, which was only one day away from the earthquake in Hualien on the evening of the 4th. Correlation analysis, to listen to the views of experts in the meteorological department of Taiwan Province.
The meteorological department of Taiwan Province estimated that the same earthquake sequence activity was caused by the crustal rupture caused by the squeezing of Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasia Plate, so this time on the 6th was the main earthquake, and 94 earthquakes, large and small, from the evening of the 4th were all foreshocks. Chen Guochang, acting director of the Taiwan Province Earthquake Prediction Center, said that this situation is very rare, and the possibility of a major earthquake of magnitude 6 or above will not be ruled out in the future.
According to the meteorological department of Taiwan, the frequency and scale of aftershocks have gradually slowed down after the original 4 th, but by the 6 th, strong earthquakes reappeared, indicating that energy emissions have not ended, and it is not ruled out that there will be more earthquakes in the future. Whether the earthquake on the 6th will be the foreshock of another stronger earthquake, the meteorological department of Taiwan said, does not rule out this possibility, because the strong earthquake energy in Hualien directly impacts the Nantou area of Chiayi, and the residual energy tends to rebound to the north, so in the future, besides Hualien, Jianan and Taipei areas will also be included in the high-incidence areas of strong earthquakes.
Will Fujian be affected and how to prevent earthquakes?
Yesterday afternoon, experts from China Seismological Network Center and China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center also accepted an exclusive interview with reporters on whether the Hualien earthquake will affect neighboring Fujian.
Liu Guiping, deputy director of China Seismological Network Center, said that Taiwan Province is located in the western part of the Pacific Rim seismic belt, where multiple tectonic plates meet. The Philippine plate was pushed westward by the Pacific plate, where it dived under the Eurasian plate, causing frequent earthquakes in this area. An earthquake occurred in Hualien, Taiwan. Although Fujian, which is separated by a sea, also felt the earthquake, experts believe that the earthquake had little impact on Fujian because it was not on the same plate.
Liu Guiping: "We have done some statistical analysis on the location of this earthquake, including magnitude, and the impact on our Fujian area is not obvious. In addition, we have also done some stress calculations, and the results also show that the impact on our Fujian area is not obvious."
Due to the possibility of large aftershocks in Hualien in the future, Pan Huaiwen, deputy director of China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center, reminded local residents and tourists to pay attention to earthquake prevention. If an earthquake occurs indoors, they can take shelter in small spaces such as load-bearing walls, columns and bathrooms. In principle, they should not jump off buildings or take elevators to evacuate.
Pan Huaiwen, deputy director of China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center, said: "If people are outdoors, they should pay attention to stay away from tall buildings, high-voltage lines, overpasses or buildings with glass curtain walls to prevent the injury of falling objects from high altitude. In addition, if people are driving, they should stop their cars quickly and bring shock absorbers to open areas."
Experts also suggested that there is a famous coastal highway in the eastern part of Taiwan Province Island, which happens to be in a mountainous area. When there is an earthquake, it is easy to produce rolling stones, landslides and other phenomena, so special attention should be paid to prevention.
