A magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture.

At 12:52 on September 5th, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Moxi Town, Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with a depth of 16 kilometers in the earthquake. The earthquake is 39.5 kilometers from Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, and 47.7 kilometers from Kangding City.

After the earthquake, the Provincial Office of Anti -Disaster Rescue Headquarters was urgently transferred to the Provincial Fire Rescue Corps 177 cars and 784 people and 15 dogs, 690 people with 102 vehicles of the provincial forest fire brigade, 167 safety production teams rushed to the earthquake to carry out rescue, and 95 people in coordination of the Armed Police Corps have reached the disaster area. Participate in rescue. At the same time, 4 helicopters and 1 communication guarantee large -scale fixed -wing drones to fly to the earthquake. One of the small squirrel helicopters has reached an air investigation in the disaster area. Member units such as the Department of Transport, the Provincial Earthquake Administration, and the Provincial Health and Health Commission have dispatched their strength to rush to the disaster area.

As of 17:00 on September 5th, the Provincial Department of Emergency has applied for the deployment of 4400 tops of central and provincial disaster relief tents, 14,000 quilts, and 14,000 emergency support areas for folding beds. In the early stage, the provincial level had 51,000 disaster relief supplies to Ganzi Prefecture. The Provincial Health and Health Commission has sent three national health emergency teams and 1 Sichuan (Ya'an) plateau health emergency rescue unit to a total of 44 medical staff to set off for medical rescue areas in the disaster area.

Reporter Kang Sha

Pictures Sichuan Provincial Emergency Management Department

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