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Earthquake Kills More Than 100 in Northwestern China
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In interviews with state media outlets, residents recounted being jolted awake and fleeing into the cold with barely enough time to grab extra layers of clothing.
Gansu is one of China’s poorest provinces, and Jishishan County is composed primarily of small townships and villages, home to about 260,000 people, a local official told party-affiliated media.
In 2020, provincial officials formally declared that Jishishan was no longer “poverty-stricken,” as part of a nationwide campaign to supposedly eradicate rural poverty by the end of that year.
Parts of Gansu fall within an earthquake-prone belt that runs from Mongolia in the north to Myanmar in the south, Xu Xiwei, a professor at the China University of Geosciences, told state media.
Many houses in the area may not be built sturdily enough to resist earthquakes, and the fact that the quake struck late at night likely made it harder for people to escape, adding to the casualties, Professor Xu said.
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, noted that the disaster had happened in a “high-altitude area with cold weather” and ordered workers to repair infrastructure as quickly as possible.
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