Yushu, Qinghai Province, issued another earthquake! Fortunately, there are no villages within 50 kilometers

Qinghai Yushu 5.3 Earthquake

According to the China Earthquake Networks officially measured, at 17:23 on May 6 in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, said the multi-county occurred 5.3 earthquake, the focal depth of 9 km, the epicenter was located at 34.56 degrees north latitude, 96.53 degrees east longitude. Fortunately, the epicenter was about 170 kilometers from Yushu City , and the average elevation was about 4668 meters within 5 kilometers of the epicenter . There are villages within 10 kilometers of the earthquake and there are no township resident sites within 50 kilometers .

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In the past 5 years, 116 earthquakes in Yushu, Qinghai Province !

In the past five years, 116 earthquakes occurred in Yushu, Qinghai Province ! 48 wherein from 3.0 to 3.9 times, 8 times 4.0 to 4.9, 5.0 to 5.9 times 1, 6.0 to 6.9 1.

Why is Qingdao Yushu so frequent earthquakes?

According to Sun Shi, a researcher at the China Seismological Network Center:

Yushu is located in the middle part of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau block. The geological activity of this plate is relatively strong. Earthquakes above the mid-intensity are continuing in history. Therefore, the Yushu earthquake is not an accidental phenomenon.

Tu Mu, an associate researcher at the Seismological Bureau of Qinghai Province, gave an introduction:

Since the Qinghai-Tibet plateau had a detailed earthquake record in 1900 , the Tibetan Plateau has experienced an earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher on average every 1.3 to 1.7 years . This area has always been a high-incidence area for earthquakes .

The earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred in April 14, 2010 in Qingdao Yushu, a total of 2698 people were killed. The earthquake was Qingdao Yushu's highest magnitude in the past decade, with the most serious losses and the highest number of casualties.

Conclusion

The earthquake occurred in Qingdao Yushu in the past five years is also considered a relatively high magnitude earthquake, the Xin currently no news of casualties.

However, no casualties do not mean no loss. Yushu in Qinghai Province has a national experimental area for Tibetan cultural and ecological protection. This earthquake will inevitably place greater pressure on the local ecological environment and cause ecological losses; secondly, local traffic will have a certain impact, and some roads may collapse. Visitors to self-tours in Yushu should pay more attention to the condition of the road surface; at the same time, the inconvenience of transportation will affect the income of tourism in the Yushu region and cause certain negative impact on local economic development.

The earthquake has no sentimental affection and Yushu is safe.

Some of the information in this article comes from the Internet and is reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.