. COUNTRIES: CHINA : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES: China Quake Rescue Efforts Hampered by Epicenter's IsolationChina Quake Rescue Efforts Hampered by Epicenter's Isolation By Barbara Demick
April 14, 2010 | 9:49 a.m. Los Angeles Times<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/ la-fg-china-earthquake15-2010apr15,0,2532979.story>
A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/y5gj5q7> Reporting from BeijingChinese authorities raced against time, distance and wind in a remote corner of the Tibetan plateau as they tried to rescue victims from a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 400 people and injured more than 8,000 others.
The earthquake struck Wednesday morning in one of the most inaccessible reaches of China, Qinghai province's Yushu county. The 100,000 people in the area are mostly Tibetan, many of them making their living herding yaks and sheep.
Houses of mud and wooden beams gave way almost immediately when the tremor struck at 7:49 a.m. in the county seat of Jiegu. A series of aftershocks collapsed schools built of concrete and a pagoda in the main park.
The school collapses evoked painful memories of the Sichuan province earthquake of 2008 in which, by the official count, 5,335 children were crushed to death in their classrooms.
"Buildings in our school were all toppled, and five pupils have died," a teacher surnamed Chang at the Yushu Primary School, a boarding school with about 1,000 students, told the Xinhua news service. "Morning sessions did not begin when the quake happened. Some pupils ran out of dorms alive, and those who had not escaped in time were buried."
At a vocational school, troops sought to rescue 20 teachers and students still buried.
Logistical difficulties frustrated rescue crews. Phones lines and electricity were out and strong winds swept the plateau. Nearly 12,000 feet in elevation, Yushu is a full day's drive from the nearest major airport, in the provincial capital of Xining. A small airport nearby that opened last summer lacks fuel pumps and lost power and communications equipment in the quake.
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