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9 killed when 2 strong quakes hit Tibet
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 07 - 10 - 2008


Two earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet
and surrounding areas, killing at least nine people and
collapsing hundreds of houses, ap quoted China's state news agency
as saying Tuesday. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people
buried in the rubble.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Monday's first quake
measured magnitude 6.6 and struck at 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT)
50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Lhasa, more than 1,600
miles (2,600 kilometers) from Beijing.
The second temblor measuring magnitude 5.1 hit about 15
minutes later, some 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of the
Tibetan capital, it said.
Earlier reports from China's official Xinhua News Agency
said at least 30 people died, but the agency revised the
death toll to nine on Tuesday, saying the previous figure
was inaccurate as it came from «unauthoritative sources»
and required verification.
Hundreds of houses collapsed in Gedar township near the
epicenter in Dangxiong County, and traffic and
telecommunications were cut. Nineteen people were injured,
Xinhua said, citing Hao Peng, deputy chairman of the
Tibetan regional government.
An unknown number of people were trapped, and soldiers and
rescue workers were dispatched to the site, Xinhua said.
Deaths also were reported in a neighboring county, Xinhua
said, but no figures were available. The Lhasa airport and
the Qinghai-Tibet railway _ which stretches from western
Qinghai province to Tibet _ continued to operate, the
agency said.
China's State Seismological Bureau said the initial
temblor was centered in Dangxiong county, which has a
population of about 42,000 people, mostly herdsmen.
In Lhasa, employees at the Civil Affairs Bureau rushed out
of their building when the tremors began but returned soon
after, said an official who refused to give her name.
Xinhua said that so far, none of the city's landmarks,
such as the Potala Palace, appeared to be damaged.
One of the agency's reporters in Lhasa said shops remained
open and there was no panic on the streets.
China's far west is fairly earthquake-prone. On Sunday, a
magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook the Xinjiang region, which
borders Tibet, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which also
suffered a 6.6-magnitude quake hours later. At least 60
people were killed when a village collapsed.
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake on May 12 devastated parts of
Sichuan province, just east of Tibet, killing 70,000 people
and leaving 5 million homeless.


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