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INDONESIA CHILE Nation recalls tsunami horror
Twelve years later, 400 “I came here every year to Survivors then gathered at a pray for my children, daugh mass prayer in Ulee Lheue bodies have not been terinlaw, and their three chil mosque, one of the few sea dren,” Maryam, who goes by front mosques still standing in identified in Thailand one name, said at the Ulee the region after the tsunami. Lheue mass grave, where “The main reason to com By AGENCIES 14,800 people were buried. memorate the earthquake and in Banda Aceh, Indonesia The bodies of her family tsunami disaster was not to were never found but 65year open old wounds,”acting Aceh Thousands of Indonesians old Maryam, who survived by governor Soedarmo told the prayed for their loved ones on holding on to a tree trunk, was mosque attendance. Monday to mark a tsunami certain her family were buried Indonesia sits on the Pacific which devastated Aceh prov in the mass grave as they lived “Ring of Fire”,where the meet ince 12 years ago today, one of in the vicinity at the time. ingofcontinentalplatescauses the worst natural disasters in strong seismic activity, and is A damaged road is seen after a quake at Tarahuin, Chile, on Sunday. ALVARO VIDAL / REUTERS human history. Flowers scattered frequently hit by earthquakes. Some 168,000 lives were Graves across the province, The tsunami commemora lost in the country when a including in Siron in Aceh tion comes just weeks after a magnitude9.1 quake struck Besar district where more than strong magnitude6.5 shallow Aceh, a province in the north 46,000 were buried, were quake struck inland in Pidie 21,000 homes lose power after quake ern tip of Sumatra Island, crowded with people who scat Jaya, a district in Aceh, killing bringing about massive tered flowers on the earth more than 100 people, leveling By REUTERS in Santiago about 35 km, the US Geologi very strong and very loud.” waves that also hit coastal wheretheybelievetheremains hundreds of buildings and dis cal Survey said. “It was the biggest scare of areas as far away as Somalia. of their loved ones lie to rest. placing nearly 84,000 people. A major magnitude7.6 “There was a lot, a lot of our lives,”she said. In Thailand, at least 400 vic earthquake jolted southern movement here, but besides The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami tims of the 2004 tsunami that Chile on Sunday, prompting I thought the that nothing of note, there Salmon zone killed 220,000 people remain thousands to evacuate coastal weren’t houses falling,” said The area hit by Sunday’s unidentified in Thailand 12 areas, but no fatalities or Alamiro Vera, owner of the quake was south of Valdivia, of tsunamis that tore across the Indian Ocean, killing more than house would fall 220,000 people yearson,policesaidonMonday. major damage were reported Cabanas Hotel in the south where 1,655 people died in a The magnitude9.1 earth in the tourism and salmon and the ground ern Chile fishing town of 1960 quake ranked by the quake triggered a tsunami farming region. Quellon. “It was just scary, USGS as the most powerful BANGLADESH across the Indian Ocean in Chile’s National Emergen would open ... It and some things inside fell.” recorded in Chile. INDIA 2 16,400 one of the biggest natural dis cy Office, or ONEMI, lifted The quake disrupted The region is home to sever MYANMAR asters in history. both the evacuation order was the biggest Christmas plans for thou al industrial salmon farms. An (dead or missing) 61 BAY OF Thailand, Indonesia, India and a tsunami watch three sands of people who fled their official with Chile’s National BENGAL scare of our lives.” 500 km THAILAND and Sri Lanka were among the hours after the Christmas homes on foot, in cars and on Fish and Aquaculture Service worst hit countries. About Day quake struck, telling horseback, seeking higher said several companies had 5,400 Denisse Alvarado, 5,400 people were killed in nearly 5,000 people who had ground amid torrential rains evacuated employees and Quellon resident ANDAMAN Thailand, among them about evacuated they could return as sirens warned about the were evaluating their facilities SEA SRI LANKA 2,000 foreign tourists. to their homes. potential tsunami. for possible damage. “Since the 2004 tsunami, Onemisaidonebridgeinthe watch. Eight mostly small Quellon resident Denisse Chile is the world’s leading 31,000 ACEH MALAYSIA MALDIVES 68 authorities have contacted area was impassable as crews ports in the area were closed, Alvarado was preparing to copper producer, but there More than between4,000to5,000relatives worked to restore electricity to Chile’s Navy said. travel to the countryside to cel are no major mines located 100 dead Epicenter to come and receive bodies. 21,000 homes without power. The quake was felt on the ebrate Christmas with friends near the zone affected by the magnitude-9.1 SUMATRA There are about 400 bodies that Officials had issued a tsu other side of the Andes moun when she felt the quake and earthquake. quake we cannot identify,”said Anand nami warning earlier for are tains in Argentina, in the ran out of her home. Chile has a long history of INDIAN INDONESIA Boonkerkaew, deputy superin as within 1,000 kilometers of southwestern city of Baril “Allofasuddenitshookand deadly quakes, including a OCEAN 168,000 tendent of Takua Pa district the epicenter, just 40 km oche, but structural damage shook and shook,” Alvarado, magnitude8.8 quake in 2010 EAST AFRICA (dead or missing) police in Phang Nga province. southwest of Puerto Quellon, in areas close to the epicenter 46, said. “I thought the house off the southcentral coast, 300 off the coast. But the warning was limited, witnesses said. would fall and the ground whichalsotriggeredatsunami Source : AFP/UN/Nature/USGS CHINA DAILY-AFP AFP—REUTERS was downgraded to a tsunami The quake’s depth was would open because it was that devastated coastal towns.
Zhanjiang special Giant petrochemical complex being built Transport projects
By LI WENFANG see steady progress [email protected]
The construction of a By LI WENFANG 35.42 billion yuan ($5.1 bil- lion) Sino-Kuwaiti refinery Zhanjiang, Guangdong 4.2 and petrochemical com- province, saw breakthrough million plex, one of the largest progress last week in vari- passengers will be able to travel international projects of its ous projects to upgrade the via the Zhanjiang airport each kind in China, kicked off in city’s transport network. The year, which is expected to start the coastal city of Zhanji- projects are aimed to enable service in 2019 ang, Guangdong province, greater regional economic last week. integration. Located on Donghai Preliminary surveys were Island, the country’s fifth- launched in Wuchuan, a largest island, the project is county-level city in the 25,000 designed to process 10 mil- region, at a site that will lion metric tons of crude oil house the relocated Zhan- tons and produce 800,000 tons jiang airport. It is the only of cargo set to be handled annu- ally at the new airport of ethylene annually in its airport in western Guang- first phase. Such volumes dong. would generate 60 billion The site is located 32 kilo- yuan in annual output. The meters away from Zhan- complex is scheduled to go jiang’s urban area and 38 into operation in 2020. km from the urban area of 96.5 The project launch marks Maoming, another city in km a major step in accelerat- western Guangdong. of railway is under construction ing the construction of a The airport is designed to on the Guangdong section of modern industrial system handle 4.2 million passen- the railway linking Hepu county, and promoting economic Hu Chunhua (second right), Guangdong Party chief, Zhu Xiaodan (fifth from left), Guangdong provincial governor, and Wang Yupu gers and 25,000 metric tons Guangxi, and Zhanjiang transformation in Guang- (center), chairman of Sinopec Group, visit the construction site of the Sino-Kuwaiti refinery and petrochemical complex in Zhanjiang, of cargo annually. Accord- dong, said Zhu Xiaodan, one of the largest Sino-foreign projects of its kind in China, last week. Lang Shuchen / For China Daily ing to Guangdong Airport provincial governor, at the Management Group, the and Zhanjiang has also launch ceremony. new airport is scheduled to started, significantly reduc- It also serves to help safe- Petrochemical Corp (Sino- Yupu, group chairman of has an annual capacity of 8 Guangdong Guanhao begin operation in 2019. The ing driving time between guard the stability of the pec Group) has optimized Sinopec. million tons of steel prod- High-tech’s and Zhanjiang current airport served more the cities. domestic oil market and the plans in view of the sig- The complex will main- ucts. Zhongzhi Paper’s paper- than 1.2 million passengers Work was also launched on national energy security, nificant international oil ly produce gasoline that The complex mainly sup- making plants, involving last year. another expressway connect- he said. price decline and refining meets the National VI stan- plies steel for automobile investments of 7.6 million Work also started on the ing Zhanjiang’s high-speed The project is set to boost overcapacity, according to dard, diesel, jet fuel and and home appliance man- yuan and 15 billion yuan 96.5 km Guangdong sec- railway station with the cen- the economy of Zhanjiang, the group. chemical products, includ- ufacturing, ship building respectively, are also situ- tion of the railway linking ter of the city. which is located in western T he company is the ing polyethylene and poly- and oil production, mainly ated on Donghai Island. Hepu county in the Guangxi The high-speed rail- Guangdong, as the govern- biggest Chinese investor propylene. to serve the South China With the first phase of Zhuang autonomous region way, linking Zhanjiang ment seeks to lift the econ- involved in the project. T h e p r o j e c t a d o p t s and Southeast Asian mar- Guanhao’s project going and Zhanjiang. Rail services and Guangzhou, capital of omy of less-developed parts Sinopec has planned four the most internationally kets. into operation in 2014 and on the line are due to start Guangdong, is expected of the province to promote “technologically advanced advanced techniques in Baosteel Zhanjiang was construction of Zhongzhi in 2021. to open to traffic in 2018, more balanced growth. and internationally com- production control, to be the first steel company in venture starting last year, The railway, bringing the according to the city’s devel- Zhu encouraged the petitive world-class” refin- built and managed with China to apply the strictest the island is becoming one travel time between Nan- opment and reform commis- local government to sup- ery and petrochemical bas- internationally competitive environmental regulations. of the country’s largest ning, capital of Guangxi, sion. port the project, create es in Zhenhai, Shanghai, energy-saving and emis- Petrochemical and steel high-end paper manufac- and Zhanjiang down from The relocation of Guang- a sound investment cli- the Maoming-Zhanjiang sion-cutting standards, plants can share resources, turing hotspots. six hours to two hours, is set dong Zhanhua Group, a mate and attract mid- and region and Nanjing to push according to the group. such as coal gas produced According to the city’s to promote the integration of large-scale chemical fertiliz- downstream petrochemi- forward the national indus- Just 500 meters away during steel manufactur- development and reform Zhanjiang into the Beibu Bay er manufacturer, to Donghai cal enterprises to Donghai trial upgrade strategy. from the refinery stands ing. commission, these mas- Economic Rim. The Zhanji- Island was also carried out Island to form an industrial The project in Zhanji- Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & The local government has sive petrochemical, steel ang government has set the last week. Officials expect the cluster. ang is an important step in Steel’s 50 billion yuan mill. planned industrial parks and paper-making projects goal of becoming a central move to generate revenue of The National Develop- implementing supply-side With its first blast fur- for the petrochemical and will contribute an annual city in the rim. 4.2 billion yuan ($604.6 mil- ment and Reform Commis- reforms and will serve to nace going into operation steel sectors to accommo- industrial output of more Construction of the Zhan- lion) annually after the new sion approved the project enhance the group’s global in September last year and date mid- and downstream than 300 billion yuan in jiang section of the express- site comes into operation in in 2011. Since then, China competitiveness, said Wang its second this July, the mill enterprises. five years. way between Yulin, Guangxi, 2018.