Summary:

An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit northwest China's Qinghai province 14 April 2010, with its epicentre calculated to be about 50km away from Gyegu town (previously translated as Jiegu township), the government headquarters of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, and about 800km away from Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital. The death toll has reached 2,220, with more than 12,000 injured and 70 still missing, with an estimated 100,000 people affected.

While the Red Cross Society of China

This report covers the period from 1 July to 31 December 2009.

In brief

Programmes summary:

The International Federation's support to the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has had many achievements in the past six months. The result of activities and efforts carried out include strengthened capacities, new initiatives, and stronger partnerships.

While both the RCSC and the International Federation continue to be focused on the recovery operation in the earthquake area since 12 May 2008, attention has gradually shifted back to other programmes,

Berlin - In 2008, Johanniter mainly focused on providing medical care throughout 22 countries, and invested donations and subsidies in the amount of nine million Euros - half a million more than the previous year. Although, the share of donations has slightly decreased from 2007, subsidies from third-party donors, such as Germany's Foreign Office, have increased. More than half of the funds were used to provide aid in Asia, and over forty percent were spent on relief efforts in Africa.

The Government has accepted the advice of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee and approved four grants from the Disaster Relief Fund totalling $9.18 million to three relief agencies to undertake relief projects for earthquake victims in Yunnan and flood victims in four provinces on the Mainland.

Announcing the grants today (July 21), a government spokesman said that the committee hoped the four grants would help provide relief to the victims. Details of these grants are as follows:

- $2.09 million to The Amity Foundation for providing relief to earthquake victims in Yunnan;

SHANGHAI, July 11 (Reuters) - China on Saturday scaled back its initial estimates of the number of people displaced by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in southwestern Yunnan province, saying 250,000 rather than 400,000 people had been left homeless.

"The miscalculation was due in part to the chaos in the aftermath of the quake," the official Xinhua news agency cited deputy provincial governor Cao Jianfang as saying.

The quake killed one person and injured about 300.

The quake struck on Thursday at 7:19 p.m. (1119 GMT) in Guantun township, in a mountainous area about 200 km

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At 7.19 pm local time (11.19 am GMT) on 9 July, an earthquake which measured between 5.7 and 6.0 on the Richter scale, hit Yao'an county, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a mountainous region of south-western China's Yunnan province. The earthquake killed at least one person, injured more than 300 and destroyed more than 18,000 houses. Some 1.26 million people are estimated to be affected by this quake.

The Situation

The majority of houses in the quake area,

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were injured and thousands of homes damaged by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan province on Thursday, Xinhua news agency said.

The government of Yao'an county estimated 30 severe injuries among more than 300 hurt, and put the number of collapsed homes at 10,000 in a hasty initial estimate.

The quake struck at 7:19 pm in Guantun township, in a mountainous area about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of the provincial capital Kunming.

The U.S. Geological Service estimated

BEIJING, July 9, 2009 (AFP) - A moderate earthquake Thursday in southwestern China injured more than 300 people, 30 of them seriously, and led to the collapse of thousands of homes, state media and seismologists said.

The epicentre of the 5.5 magnitude quake was in Guantun, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, said official news agency Xinhua, citing the China Earthquake Networks Centre.

Xinhua said more than 300 people were injured by the quake which destroyed over 10,000 homes and damaged around 30,000, citing local officials.