At least 67 people died and many others were buried under the debris after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday, the China Earthquake Administration said.
AS soon as the earthquake occurred, the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has made an emergency response to the disaster. A total of 1.1 million yuan in kind and cash have allocated for relief operation. The items of relief included 500 tents 1000 quilts and 1000 heavy coats. The RCSC has also sent an assessment team headed by vice president Hao Linna to affected area. And also an emergecy appeal has launched by RCSC for fundraising to affected area.
In neighboring Sichuan province, the branch has also sent a relief team to affected area.
According to Xinhua, more than 85 percent of the houses in the Jiegu Township near the epicenter had collapsed, said a local official. "The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic, injured people, with many bleeding in the head," he said.
"Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school," he said.
"A large crack appears in the wall of the Yushu Hotel, and part of a government office building also collapsed," he said.
"I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers," he said.
The epicenter is at the Rima Village in the Shanglaxiu Township, about 50 km west of Jiegu, the government seat of the Yushu prefecture, and about 800 km away from Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital.