2014 November 22, Kangding China Earthquake ShakeMap

The 2014 Kangding earthquake struck

Kangding County Kangding (), also called Tachienlu and Dartsedo (; ), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the histor ...

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China, bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the nor ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

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, with a

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of 5.9 on 22 November. The earthquake killed five and injured 54 people.

Damage and casualties

After the quake, the power and communication have not been interrupted, according to the local officials. As of 20:40 (UTC+8) on November 22, 2014, there is a

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in five villages of Tagong Township (塔公乡). There is no major damage was reported in the town of Kangding, where

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, the official media, video showed residents strolling the town's streets, looking up at the steep surrounding hillsides and talking on their cellphones. About 100 vehicles were trapped by a landslide on a highway connecting Sichuan and Tibet, and Chengdu-Kunming Railway was also halted in the area while workers checked on damage to the line. As of 19:20 (UTC+8) on November 22, the government received 16 reports about this earthquake from 16 townships. There are three houses collapsed and one house damaged.

Response

Sichuan Province launched the response of prevent disaster after the quake. Ya'an City has sent five

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and 30 health care personnel to Kangding at 18:00 (UTC+8) on November 22.

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...

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and President of China, said "to emphasized the need for quick action".

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, Premier of the State Council of China, has been response this quake, also said "to emphasized the need for quick action".

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* {{Earthquakes in China

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Earthquakes in Sichuan Kangding

Damage and casualties

Response

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