Joint quake rescue drill in East China
Rescue team members from Shanghai armed police participate in an earthquake rescue drill in Fuzhou, capital of East China’s Fujian province, on May 7. A total of 27 rescue workers from seismological bureaus and armed police officers [...]
China produces “machine monster” in quake rescue
2013-04-25 — This “machine monster” with two long arms can flexibly coordinate operations in the collapsed ruins of shear, crushing, cutting, expansion actions with wheels-track mode switch. Its arms can be driven with oil and electricity [...]
Central government requires orderly quake rescue
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The State Council General Office has urged relevant authorities and rescue forces to carry out the quake relief work in an orderly manner.
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Guizhou rescue teams ready for quake-hit Sichuan
Updated: 2013-04-22 14:53
(chinadaily.com.cn)
After the 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Lushan county in Southwest China’s Sichuan province on Saturday morning, neighboring Guizhou province put its fire department on standby to aid rescue [...]
Roads open to rescue vehicles only
Updated: 2013-04-22 14:20
By Zheng Jinran (chinadaily.com.cn)
All vehicles not involved in rescue efforts have been banned from using roads in the quake zone area in Sichuan provicne to help people still trapped.
Vehicles carrying relief [...]
Aftershocks, supply deficiency hamper rescue efforts
Continual aftershocks and insufficient relief supplies are hampering the rescue efforts in southwest China’s Sichuan, 36 hours after a powerful earthquake hit the province.
Medical staff from Peking University No. 3 Hospital treat [...]
China in full rescue efforts in quake zone
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Military and civilian rescue teams are struggling to reach every household in Lushan and neighboring counties of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, badly hit by Saturday’s strong earthquake.
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Rescue continues on the second day of quake
YA’AN, Sichuan – Search and rescue continued Sunday as death toll from Saturday’s devastating earthquake climbed to 180 in Southwest China’s Sichuan province.
In Baoxing, a county isolated by the 7.0-magnitude quake, [...]
Rescue continues as China quake death toll keeps rising
Search and rescue continued Sunday as death toll from Saturday’s devastating earthquake climbed to 179 in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
In Baoxing, a county isolated by the 7.0-magnitude quake, 26 people were confirmed dead [...]
Thousands of soldiers deployed for rescue in quake-hit Sichuan
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French prosecutors on Friday launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that former President Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
Chinese president orders all-out rescue efforts after strong quake
BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out measures to rescue victims and minimize casualties after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern province of Sichuan Saturday morning.
Xi, also general [...]
Chinese leaders order all-out rescue efforts after M-7.0 quake
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered all possible measures be taken to rescue quake victims and minimize deaths and injuries, after a 7.0-magnitude quake hit southwest Sichuan Province [...]
Sendai, Buriram rescue Asian campaigns
Japan’s Vegalta Sendai and Thai minnows Buriram United rescued their Asian campaigns with upset wins Wednesday, throwing their AFC Champions League group wide open.
Sendai beat FC Seoul 1-0, inflicting the first defeat of the competition [...]
72 die in Indian building collapse; rescue bid ends
By Chonchui Ngashangva and Rafiq Maqbool ,APApril 7, 2013, 12:13 am TWN
MUMBAI, India — Rescue workers on Saturday finished a two-day search for survivors in the collapse of a residential building that was being constructed illegally [...]
All-out rescue efforts made at site of Tibet landslide
An excavator works at the accident site in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, March 31, 2013. Thirteen bodies have been found until 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the site of a mining area landslide. The disaster [...]
All-out Tibet rescue attempts find more bodies
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nine more bodies were retrieved on Sunday at the site of a mining area landslide in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
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All-out rescue for buried miners in Tibet
Rescue workers conduct search and rescue work at the site where a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, March 30, 2013. Rescuers have found bodies [...]
Rescue work underway for landslide-trapped workers in Tibet
Rescuers work at the scene where a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, March 29, 2013. Dozens of workers from a subsidiary of China National Gold Group [...]
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