AT LEAST 24 DEAD, 10,000 HOMELESS IN CHINA QUAKE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A powerful earthquake of 6.9 magnitude jolted the city of Kashgar in China's remote northwest late Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and leaving more than 10,000 homeless. More than 50 other people were injured in the quake, which struck at 11 p.m. (7 a.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ), officials at earthquake bureaus in Beijing and in the province of Xinjiang said today. The epicenter of the quake was 35 miles northeast of Kashgar, a city of 240,000 in Xinjiang province. The death toll was expected to rise, as communications links were knocked out in some of the hardest-hit areas, making assessment of damages ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES. After an interlocutory judgment has been obtained, the damages must be, ascertained; the act of thus fixing the amount of damages is called the assessment of damages. 2. In cases sounding in damages, (q.v. and casualties difficult. About 65,000 people were affected by the earthquake, among them the 10,000 whose homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable, said Zhang Yunfeng of the Xinjiang Seismology seismology (sīzmŏl`əjē, sīs–), scientific study of earthquakes and related phenomena, including the propagation of waves and shocks on or within the earth by natural or artificially generated seismic signals. Bureau. In Jiashi county, south of the epicenter, soldiers and local officials were distributing tents to homeless families, Zhang said. Temperatures were around freezing today and were expected to drop to minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit overnight, he said. Local officials in Kashgar said at least several hundred homes had been damaged by the tremor, which also opened up a 2,000-foot crack in a dike Dike, in Greek religion and mythology Dike: see Horae. dike, in technology dike, in technology: see levee. dike Bank, usually of earth, constructed to control or confine water. at a small reservoir nearby. Water was leaking out and efforts were under way to close the gap. Damage was also reported in the nearby town of Artux, which has 30,000 people. Fifty-two aftershocks, the largest at 5.1 magnitude, followed the quake, Zhang said. The remote area, about 2,000 miles west of Beijing, near China's border with Kazakhstan, is a relatively busy commercial crossroads along the old Silk Road Silk Road Ancient trade route that linked China with Europe. Originally a caravan route and used from c. 100 BC, the 4,000-mi (6,400-km) road started in Xi'an, China, followed the Great Wall to the northwest, climbed the Pamir Mtns. that once connected East to West. Many of its inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. are Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities. Tuesday's quake followed a 6.1-magnitude quake along the Mongolian border last week and a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Yunnan province Feb. 3, which killed more than 300 people. An earthquake of magnitude 7, slightly stronger than Tuesday's temblor, is considered a major earthquake and is capable of widespread, heavy damage. |
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