Chi­na earth­quake report #3
The res­cue and relief efforts after Sat­ur­day’s south­west Chi­na Ya’an earth­quake is con­tin­u­ing with the num­ber of lives lost offi­cial­ly at 188 peo­ple, 25 are miss­ing and 11,460 injured.
While radio ama­teurs con­tin­ue to help with relief efforts, Fan Bin BA1RB says that pub­lic com­mu­ni­ca­tion is back to nor­mal in the dis­as­ter area.
He said the CRSA/CRAC no longer required 3855kHz, 7050kHz and 14270kHz as emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tion fre­quen­cies. It expressed thanks for the sup­port from IARU mem­ber soci­eties and oth­ers dur­ing the disaster.
It rained in the earth­quake area last night. Effec­tive traf­fic con­trol has been very impor­tant to trans­port tents, water, foods and med­i­cines into the area.
The rur­al com­mu­ni­ties around Ya’an city are along the same seis­mic fault where the Great Sichuan Earth­quake killed more than 90,000 peo­ple five years ago, in one of Chi­na’s worst nat­ur­al disasters.
The lat­est earth­quake on Sat­ur­day left tens of thou­sands of peo­ple in tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back as after­shocks continued.
Bad­ly hit Lushan Coun­ty is now a large refugee camp, with tents set up and vol­un­teers pro­vid­ing meals.
— Jim Lin­ton VK3PC Chair­man of the IARU Region 3 Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Committee
with help of Fan Bin BA1RB.