The owner of the Luding Earthquake Homestay said: There are no tourists in the hotel during the earthquake, and cracks appear on the wall after the earthquake

Cover Journalist Wang Yuexin Zhou Honggan

On the evening of September 5th, Mr. Wu, who was in the hotel in Musi Town, Luding County, Sichuan, was worried about how to charge your mobile phone.At 12:52 noon on the same day, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in the local area."The impact of our homestay is not too great, but the wall is a bit cracking, and everyone is okay."

Affected by the earthquake, some houses in the ancient town of Moxi were damaged

According to Mr. Wu, in 2019, he went to Moxi Town to open up three houses, and one of them has opened one after another, one of which is newly opened this year.Affected by the epidemic in recent days, the three homestays have not received tourists in the past few days.At the time of the earthquake, he and the staff in the hotel quickly ran to the open area to avoid risks."None of us was injured, so we saw cracks in the wall of the house." Mr. Wu said, but not far from his hotel, some houses had skewed or collapsed.

Mr. Wu said that after the earthquake, rescuers rushed to rescue."At present, the mobile phone signal has been restored, but the lighting circuit is damaged, and it is still a problem to charge the mobile phone."

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