The Earthquake Administration of Sichuan Province of China stated that at 9:9:22 on the evening of the 5th, an 8.1 earthquake occurred in Luzhou City, with a focal depth of 5 kilometers. The news shocked the mainland people. (Image source: Internet image)
[See China News on October 6, 2021](See a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Li Xiaokui)SichuanProvinceEarthquake AdministrationNews, at 9:9:22 in the evening on October 5th, the scale of Luzhou City8.1 EarthquakeWith a focal depth of 5 kilometers, it was an extremely shallow earthquake. The news came out and shocked Chinese society. However, one hour after the relevant news came out, the Sichuan Earthquake Administration changed its slogan to “there is no earthquake”, which caused an uproar in the public opinion.
At 9:30 pm on the 5th, the Sichuan Earthquake Administration issued a news that at 21:9:22 on October 5, 2021, near Shangma Town, Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province (28.52 degrees north latitude, 105.30 degrees east longitude), the scale of the occurrence was 8.1. The earthquake has a focal depth of 5 kilometers. Subsequently, many Chinese media launched earthquake news one after another. News of major earthquakes can be seen everywhere on Weibo, and the people pay close attention to the casualties in the disaster area.
But what is unexpected is that the Sichuan Seismological Bureau issued another news at 10:29 that night that the 8.1 earthquake notification was “in order to automatically deal with the false alarm of the technical failure of the system, and there was no earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or higher in Luzhou, Sichuan”. I apologize for the inconvenience to the outside world.
Many netizens dumbfounded and said, “Seeing this, those who can’t win the earthquake are ready to write a suicide note”, “I just returned to Sichuan, I thought I was out of luck”, “The system technology has been strengthened, and the adrenal glands are soaring too fast.” , “Such a mistake will scare people to death, okay? People are in turmoil and social chaos”, “My God! How big is the Wenchuan Earthquake when a level of 8.1 is falsely reported?! Are you trying to scare people to death? ”, “Even if it is thirteen Years later, thinking back to the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, I still can’t help crying.”
There was a magnitude 8 earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. The seismic wave propagated 6 times around the earth, and the earthquake affected most of China and many Asian countries and regions. The earthquake was felt as far as Liaoning in the north, Shanghai in the east, Hong Kong, Guangdong, Macau, Thailand, Vietnam in the south, and Pakistan in the west.
According to the report of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China, as of September 25, 2008, “the earthquake caused 69,227 people to die, 17,923 missing, 374,643 injured to varying degrees, 19,903,300 lost their homes, and the total affected population reached 46.256 million.” However, a private investigation revealed that the actual death toll from the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan exceeded 300,000, including more than 30,000 students.
In addition, earlier this year, at 4:33 a.m. on September 16th, a magnitude 6 earthquake occurred in Lu County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. The focal depth was only about 10 kilometers, and the epicenter was 7 kilometers away from Lu County and only 3 kilometers away from the nearest Fuji Town. Kilometers, including Chengdu, Leshan, Chongqing and many other places, felt obvious shaking, and then another aftershock with a magnitude of 2.8 occurred at 4:55.
According to the photos at the scene, the earthquake caused a large number of local houses to collapse, the ground was covered with bricks, and there were power outages in many places. Some people describe the tremor as the strongest since 2008. According to Chinese media, the last time a magnitude 6 earthquake occurred was in Changning County, Yibin City, Sichuan Province on June 17, 2019.
Source: Look at China
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