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16 killed in magnitude 5.7 temblor in Jiangxi
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-11-26 13:59 Some 130,000 homes were damaged in the worst-hit Jiujiang and Ruicheng
counties, while 420,000 people were evacuated to safer areas as emergency
officials rushed tents to the zone to shelter the homeless.
Earthquake survivors receive medical treatment
in the open in Ruichang Saturday, November 26,
2005. [newsphoto] | An emergency work group
sent by the State Seismic Bureau, together with one on-the-spot work team
arrived in the site of the quake by Saturday noon. Teams dispatched by
local seismic bureaux of Jiangxi, Hubei and Fujian provinces are also on their
way to the quake-stricken region to render help
Officials there said they were still assessing the extent of the quake, while
a hotel receptionist who declined to give her name told Reuters that residents
had been scared but rural areas were probably worst hit.
A Chinese woman whose daughter perished
in the earthquake cries in front of a collapsed building in Jiujiang,
East China's Jiangxi Province Saturday, November 26, 2005.
[Xinhua] | "You could hear windows vibrating,
everyone ran out into the street. But I haven't heard of any buildings
collapsing in the city, I think it was some kilometers away."
Debris is seen at a street after an earthquake
struck in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi Province, November 26, 2005.
[newsphoto] | The quake was also felt in
neighboring Hunan, Hubei and Anhui provinces, state television reported, while
in the industrial hub of Wuhan, people frightened by the tremors rushed into
The United States National Earthquake Information Center reported the quake
was magnitude 5.5.
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