China: Earthquake - Nov 2005

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The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 183 countries.

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 1 83 countries.

Hope Weiner in Ruichang city

Wei an Ying, 56, was just beginning to recover from disastrous floods that in September 2005 accompanied a typhoon that robbed him of his autumn cotton crops and damaged his house.

But on Saturday, 26 November, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck his village of Xi Xin Qiao, near the city of Ruichang. The earthquake destroyed all that remained of his home. The quake wrecked 150,000 other homes and forced 600,000 people to evacuate.

The Government has accepted the advice of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee and approved a grant of $1 million from the Disaster Relief Fund to the Association of Chinese Evangelical Ministry Ltd.

HONG KONG, Jan 4, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Hong Kong decided Wednesday to grant 1 million HK dollars from its Disaster Relief Fund to help earthquake victims in Jiangxi province, southeast of Chinese Mainland.
The quake measuring 5.7 on Richter scale hit the province late in November and affected the lives of nearly 5 million people.

The Disaster Relief Fund was established in December, 1993 for emergency help in places outside Hong Kong.

This appeal seeks CHF 6,574,313(1) to fund programmes and activities to be implemented in 2006 and 2007. These programmes are aligned with the International Federation's Global Agenda, which sets out four broad goals to meet the Federation's mission to "improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity".
Global Agenda Goals:

1. Reduce the numbers of deaths, injuries and impact from disasters.

2. Reduce the number of deaths, illnesses and impact from diseases and public health emergencies.

"This year has been a year like no other for humanitarian action, bracketed by devastating disasters, - the Indian Ocean Tsunami in the final days of 2004 and the South Asia earthquake of October 2005, on top of the worst hurricane season in living memory - and stretching all humanitarian agencies to their maximum capacity and beyond." (Introduction of Humanitarian Appeals 2006- 30 November 2005)

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries.

In Brief

This Minor Emergency Update no. 1 is being issued based on the situation described below reflecting the information available at this time .

NANCHANG, Dec 2, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu inspected the earthquake-hit Ruichang City and Jiujiang County in east China's Jiangxi Province, calling for more efforts to help resettle the victims.

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted the places on Nov. 26.

As of Friday afternoon, aftershocks are still felt in the area.

The 11 seismographs installed by the China Seismological Bureau recorded 116 aftershocks of the earthquake from 12:00 a.m. Thursday to 10:00 a.m.

NANCHANG, Nov 30, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- All residents injured in last Saturday's earthquake in Jiujiang, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, have been receiving free medical treatment in the hospital, and there is no outbreak of epidemics in the region.

NANCHANG, Nov 30, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese seismologists on Wednesday predicted there would be more minor aftershocks in last Saturday's quake-hit region in Jiujiang City of Jiangxi Province, in the next one to two months.
The possibility of tremors of around 4 on the Richter scale in the region between Ruichang and Jiujiang cities can not be ruled out, but the damage will be small, said a panel of seismologists in a report presented to the earthquake control and disaster relief headquarters.

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 183 countries.

Chinese Red Cross Promptly Responded to Jiangxi Earthquake

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale hit Jiangxi Province on 26th November 2005 at 8.49 a.m. Considered the worst quake to strike Jiangxi in 60 years, has affected over 50 counties among Rui Chang and Jiu Jiang prefecture. The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) -- Jiangxi Branch arrived instantly to the disaster hit area for emergency relief assistance and has immediately distributed 60 tents donated by Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC), which is the first batch arrived relief material.

NANCHANG, Nov 28, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- More than 10,000 soldiers have been mobilized and at least one million yuan (about 123,000 US dollars) will be allocated in the disaster relief in central China's quake-hit areas, said the sources with the provincial governments of Jiangxi and Hubei on Monday.

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 183 countries.

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2005/0210

OCHA Situation Report No. 2

BEIJING, Nov 27, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged local officials to make all-out efforts to resettle the evacuated citizens who were affected by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7, which jolted east China's Jiangxi Province on Saturday.

Beijing (dpa) - The death toll has risen to at least 21 after an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit China's eastern province of Jiangxi and neighbouring areas on Saturday, state media said on Sunday.

Officials in Jiangxi's Jiujiang city, close to the epicentre of the earthquake, had reported 13 dead by Sunday morning, the semi-official China News Service said.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs said 247 people were injured in Jiujiang, with another six dead and 130 injured in the nearby city of Ruichang.