Nocere – Earth Disasters

In the north eastern parts of China, in the province of  Heilongjiang, a passenger plane crashed. There were at least 42 people on board the plane the died.

There were 96 people on board the plane at the time of the crash. As it over shot the runway trying to land at Yichun City’s airport, it exploded into flames. The accident happened at 1336 GMT. 5 of the people on board were crew members.

Of the people that survived the wreckage, 3 of the 49 are listed in serious condition.

The plane departed the provincial capital of Harbin at 2051. It was an Embraer ERJ-190.

Among the people on board the flight was 5 children.

Most of the people who survived did not have serious injuries.

It is possible that the airport had been covered in fog at the time of the accident.

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In China, a train carrying stones to be used in the construction of building a railroad to join Baotou to Mandalt, derailed and caused the deaths of 11 people. One other person was hurt in the derailment.

It happened Friday morning. Mandalt is a town located on the border near Mongolia.

The accident is still being checked out to find what caused the train to derail.

In China, accidents in the places people work are common. Thousands of people in China die each year due to lack of following safety rules and not very good training for workers.

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On Sunday, in the northwestern part of China’s Gansu province, landslides took 65 lives and possibly more. There are still hundreds of people that have not yet been found.

It was very early on Sunday morning when the landslides started. The newest disaster for the China.

In Zhouqu, the area that took the hardest hit, nearly half of the county was now beneath the water. There were numerous homes that had fallen and the streets were coated with mud and water.

Landslides were caused by the down pouring of rain that ravaged china during the night time hours on Saturday. There was also a river that flooded out of it’s banks.

The thick mud covered roads and land are hampering the rescuers. Making it hard to drive into areas or walk over the terrain.

It is possible that there were about 50,000 people whose lives were affected by this disaster. Electricity had to be cut off from the affected areas.

They are using helicopters to check out the damage.

There are also 2400 soldiers that have been sent to aide the rescue efforts.

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On Friday, while many were working in the Luoshan Gold Mine in Zhaoyuan, a fire ignited in the mine, taking 14 lives.

At this time, 23 miners remain trapped inside the mine. Another 292 make it out to safety.

The fire began at approximately 5pm Friday evening. It is possible that a cable under the surface may have sparked causing the fire.

Many of the workers that were hurt in the accident have been transported to two area hospitals.

The mine is managed by the Lingnan Mining Company.

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Possibly more the 37 people died in the raging waters beneath a bridge in China that fell into the river.

After many days of rain pouring down and running into the river, the waters rose and exceeded what the river bed could hold.

It is possible that fallen trees floating down the rushing waters collected at the base of the bridge allowing a build up debris to put pressure on the bridge supports.

It only took 2 minutes for the bridge to totally collapse into the raging river water.

Very few escaped before the bridge fell into the river. Numerous people ended up in the water below struggling to reach trees or anything else to help then stay afloat in the water.

37 have been reported to have perished in the accident, while possibly more have yet to be found. The number could grow as they learn of more people that could have been on the bridge.

Rescuers are searching spots where people could still be holding on for dear life, or bodies could be hung up in debris.

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The flooding that has not let up in China has caused the destruction of 5700 homes and has been the reason that there are at least 152,000 people that have  been relocated in northeastern parts of China this past week.

China has experienced some of the worst flooding this year in over a 10 years. The floods have caused the deaths of 701 people and there are another 347 that haven’t been found.

According to the China Daily, the newspaper run by the state, the flooding this year has resulted in $21 billion dollars in damage.

Rising waters have pushed the flood wall reinforcements to their limit. The govenment of China has plans to reinforce the flood walls at all the smaller reservoirs.

There are approximately 81,000 small reservoirs in China. So far there have  been 9200 strengthened but many of of smaller ones need work done on them and reinforced also.

Most of the damages from the flooding is found in the north eastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin. To help stranded people the civil affairs department has sent supplies of tents and quilts.

Now Chanthu made landfall on Thursday This is the third typhoon this time of year for the southern parts of China. With it has come winds of 71 miles per hour.

The already saturated parts of China could get another 20 inches of rain from Chanthu.

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It has been raining for days. China continues to suffer from flooding in areas that has taken lives and forced many from their homes. Over 3 million people have been forced out of thier homes in China in the past 2 weeks.

At this time in other areas of China that have been hard hit by rains and landslides, the number of people that have died is at least 239 with 109 people still that haven’t been located. This does not include the 107 from Mondays landslide in Dazhai.

As the mud washed down the hillside, it entrapped many homes in the mud trapping people inside. As they are trying to find the missing people, more mud could come down the hillside at any time.

The homes that are buried beneath the mud are in Dazhai which is in the Guizhou province of China.

The number of people who have died in the landslide is not yet know. It is reported that close to half of the hillside had caved in absorbing a large area of mud.

There are rescuers dressed in orange colored clothing searching along the hillside. Looking under concrete slabs or anything eles that someone could be trapped under.

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In Henam province, another deadly coal mine accident has taken possibly more then 46 miners lives.

It happened  on Monday at 1:40 am. There was a blast from a cache of explosives that went off in the mine. There are possibly more then 58 miners pinned in the mine.

This is being considered the most deadly mine accident of the year.

26 of the 72 miners in the mine at the time of the accident were rescued at Pingdingshan city.

China has a very poor record when it comes to mine safety. They averaged nearly 7 deaths per day from accidents in the mines last year.

In the US there were only 18 deaths from mine accidents the whole year.

There are two rescue crews busy in the shaft trying to help evacuate trapped miners.

Already this year the deaths from China coal mine accidents out number the deaths last year for the same quater. Last year there were 509 death recorded. This year for the same quater, there are already 592 deaths.

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