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1、关于青海玉树地震的英语作文Latest: The death toll of Chinas Qinghai 7.1-magnitude earthquake rose to 589 as of 1:20 am Thursday, according to the local quake-relief headquarters.Beijing - At least 400 people were killed and 10,000 injured in the strongest earthquake to strike the country in nearly two years, jolt
2、ing Qinghai province Wednesday morning.A man sifts through the debris of a collapsed building in Gyegu, Yushu, in Qinghai province on Wednesday after a 7.1 magnitude quake hit the region.The number of casualties is rising. Witnesses said the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, whihttp:/ struck at 7:49 am, lef
3、t many people buried under the debris in hardest-hit Yushu, a remote Tibetan autonomous prefecture where the average elevation is around 4,000 meters above sea level. The quake and a string of aftershocks, the biggest being 6.3 magnitude, toppled houses, temples, gas stations and electric poles, tri
4、ggered landslides, damaged roads, cut power supplies and disrupted telecommunications. A reservoir also developed cracks, which workers are trying to patch.President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered local authorities to spare no effort in search and rescue operations, and in caring for the v
5、ictims. Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu rushed to the quake-hit region on Wednesday evening to supervise rescue operations.Many are trapped under the debris of collapsed houses in Gyegu town near the epicenter, said Huang Limin, deputy secretary-general of the prefecture government.Gyegu, or Jiegu, is the
6、seat of the Yushu prefecture government and has a population of 100,000.Xiao Yuping, deputy chief of the Yushu education bureau, said a total of 56 students and five teachers were killed, with another 40 students trapped in the rubble.He said a vocational school suffered most casualties, with 22 stu
7、dents killed, 20 of them girls.He said half of the school buildings in the prefecture collapsed. But China National Radio quoted a local Red Cross official as saying 70 percent of schools had been destroyed.Shi Huajie, chief of the armed police force unit in the prefecture, said in the absence of he
8、avy equipment, most rescue workers were using their hands to sift through the rubble looking for survivors.At least 30 people were buried under the debris of a three-stohttp:/ building at the Yushu Ethnicities Comprehensive School, and about 700 soldiers were struggling to clear the rubble and rescu
9、e those buried under it, a spokesman for the provincial emergency office said.More than 5,000 additional rescuers, including soldiers and medical workers, have been dispatched to the quake-hit region, according to the Qinghai provincial government.Authorities in the neighboring provinces of Gansu an
10、d Sichuan and the Tibet autonomous region have also sent rescue workers to Yushu.Our top priority is to save students, said Kang Zifu, an army officer in the rescue team in Gyegu.The quake killed five people and injured one in Shiqu county, which neighbors Yushu, in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture
11、 of Garze in Sichuan province, local authorities said.According to Nima, director of Qinghais provincial Red Cross, 90 percent of local houses - typically mud-and-wood structures - had collapsed. The affected regions are in desperate need for tents, quilts, cotton clothes as well as food, she said.T
12、he Civil Aviation Administration of China said operations were at Yushu airport, which opened last year and is some 30 km away from the epicenter, Rima village, about 50 km west of Gyegu.Wu Yong, commander of the Yushu Military Command of the Peoples Liberation Army, earlier said roads leading to th
13、e airport had been damaged, hampering rescue efforts.Jigme Usang, a 23-year-old Yushu native, who escaped unscathed with more than 900 teachers and students before the No 2 Ethnicities Middle School collapsed, told China Daily that he and the others had been woken up by an earlier earthquake that da
14、y.Had it not been for that earthquake, we would not have made it through the big one, he said.The State Seismological Bureau said a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit Yushu at 5:39 am.Jigme, a charity worker, said survivors need anything and everything to make it through the first few nights. Local foreca
15、sts say the evening temperatures in Yushu would fall below freezing between Wednesday and Friday, with showers expected in three counties on Saturday.The provincial weather bureau has predicted snow and sleet in Yushu in the coming days.Tharpa Tashi, director of Yushus weather bureau, said residents
16、 were clad in winter clothes. The bureau estimated that the local temperature was -1.2 C when the tremor hit.Apart from rescuers, about 500 monks from Sichuan trekked to Yushu on Wednesday to provide locals bottled water, instant noodles and dried food, said Jigme.Well need plenty more aid, he said, adding that the fear of more aftershocks has forced many residents to seek refuge in the open.Our situation now is similar to what people in Sichua
