青海地震死亡人数已达300人

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青海地震死亡人数已达300人

At least 300 people died and many others were buried under the debris after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday, according to China National Radio.

CASUALTIES, DAMAGES AND LOSSES

More than 85 percent of the houses in the Jiegu Township near the epicenter had collapsed, said Zhuohuaxia, a publicity official with the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, told Xinhua.

"The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic, injured people, with many bleeding in the head," he said.

"Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school," he said.

"A large crack appears in the wall of the Yushu Hotel, and part of a government office building also collapsed," he said.

"I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers," he said.

The epicenter is at the Rima Village in the Shanglaxiu Township, about 50 km west of Jiegu, the government seat of the Yushu prefecture, and about 800 km away from Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital.

"The epicenter is a pasturing area and sparsely-populated. I think the quake would not cause casualties as heavy as those in Jiegu," Zhuohuaxia said.

Jiegu has a population of about 100,000, including permanent residents and migrant people, he added.

"The houses here are almost all made of wood and earthen walls, which will easily collapse when a quake happens," said Karsum Nyima, deputy director of the News Department of the Yushu TV Station.

Although Yushu is a sparsely-populated region, experts said the quake is very likely to cause "heavy" casualties.

"The strong quake has a shallow depth and the epicenter is close to the prefecture seat," said Sun Shihong, a research fellow with the China Earthquake Networks Center in Beijing.

"It is estimated there will be heavy casualties, as the quake occurred in the early morning and most of the local residents were yet to get up," he said.

"In addition, according to the building structure and damages, a large number of people will be injured," he added.

The quake led to a temporary cut of telecommunications and damaged roads to the airport. The epicenter is about 200 km away from the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and it was not immediately known whether it had been affected.

The quake was strongly felt in the neighboring Qamdo Prefecture and other regions in Tibet.

"But no casualties or major damages have been reported so far. We are investigating the losses," said Zhu Quan, director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Seismological Bureau.

The bureau has dispatched an emergency team made up of 63 professional rescuers to Yushu, Zhu said.

"They left Qamdo in the morning and will arrive at Yushu in the afternoon," he said.

相关中文报道（人民网）

北京时间2010年04月14日07时49分许，青海省玉树藏族自治州玉树县(北纬 33.1，东经96.7)发生7.1级地震。在正在召开的青海省政府新闻发布会上，记者获悉，截至14日13时，玉树地震已造成近300人遇难。初步统计，伤者达8000人。

针对这次地震，中国地震台网中心研究员孙士鋐接受了人民网记者的专访。他分析，从地质构造上看，玉树历史上曾多次发生地震。玉树地处青藏高原块体的中部，该板块的地质活动较为强烈，中强度以上的地震在历史上持续不断，因此玉树地震不是一个偶然的现象。台湾、青海今天相继地震，虽然属于不同板块，但是反应了全球地震活动进入高活跃期。

孙士鋐介绍，从2009年7月15日至今的9个月以来，全球发生7级以上地震共24次，平均每月2.6次；相比20世纪百年每年19次，每月1.6次的平均记录高出不少。而7.7级以上地震的百年平均值是每年两次，而最近9个月内全球则发生了6次。

孙士鋐认为，地球进入高活跃期时段，对于是否后期会出现更强烈（8级或8.5级以上）的地震，地震科研人员需要密切关注。