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Thursday, 25 April 2013

Onset of flood season adds to quake zone risks

Monitoring and prevention efforts will be stepped up as secondary geological events overlapping with the flood season present a tremendous challenge for disaster relief operations in Sichuan province’s quake-hit areas, said a senior official of the provincial government on Thursday.


Probe teams have discovered more than 1,900 high-risk spots in Lushan and Baoxing counties, Zhong Mian, executive deputy governor of Sichuan province, said at a news conference in Beijing.


The two counties in Ya’an were the areas most affected by the magnitude-7 earthquake on April 20.


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HE DAN, AN BAIJIE via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/tfFeSQiNTqs/

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