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Rescue ... heavy rains are hindering workers ALMOST 160,000 people downstream from an unstable earthquake-created lake in central China have been evacuated. The 7.9 magnitude quake that struck on May 12 sent dirt and rocks tumbling into valleys, blocking rivers, forcing them to develop into...
Article from: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Chengdu, China CHINA has evacuated nearly 160,000 people as a huge earthquake-created lake keeps rising towards bursting levels, state media said today, amid frantic efforts to ease the danger. A total of 158,000 people had been moved by...
Nearly 160,000 people evacuated over flooding threat in China The threat of flooding from dozens of lakes swelling behind walls of mud and rubble that have plugged narrow valleys in parts of the disaster zone is a new worry for millions of survivors of the Nearly 160-thousand people were...
Families have been moved from towns at risk of flooding Almost 160,000 people have now been evacuated from areas below a rising "quake lake" in Sichuan province, Chinese state media say. Experts fear Tangjiashan lake, formed in the 12 March earthquake when a landslide blocked a river, could burst...
Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Defence & Security Forces, Disasters, Accidents & Crises, Flood, Earthquake in China, Landslide & Avalanche, Sichuan, China, Beijing
