Minor emergency 05ME070 Issued 28 November 2005 EQ-2005-000198-CHN China: Jiangxi earthquake

In Jiujiang county, preliminary reports from the local branch reported some 8,072 "rooms" (approximately 3,000-4,000 homes) have been demolished and 132,196 "rooms" have been seriously damaged, with some local officials indicating that the quake has flattened thousands of rural homes. Hubeii According to latest reports, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that jolted China’s northern Jiangxi province at 08:49 (00:49 GMT) on Saturday 26 November has left 14 people dead. According to the most recent statistics from the Red Cross Society of China’s (RCSC) Jiangxi provincial branch, some 377 people have been treated Wuxue for earthquake-related injuries.

In Ruichang city, 420,000 residents The quake’s epicentre was in Ruichang city, with the were shocked by the largest earthquake to strike the area in over fifty years. quake’s force felt in northern Jiangxi province, eastern Chinese television showed collapsed Hubei province, southern Anhui province, northwestern brick buildings and deep cracks in those Zhejiang province and northeastern Hunan province. still standing. China’s state seismic bureau reports that five of the deaths The damage to water sources caused by occurred in Ruichang city, seven in Jiujiang county and the earthquake has also created a short- two in Wuxue, a city facing Jiujiang across the Yangtze age of clean drinking water. river in central China's Hubei province. Ruichang CHF 130,000 ($ 166,465 or € 200,915) has been allocated u from the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund q

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