’Quake hits north China
NZPA-Reuter Peking At least 34 people have died in a strong earthquake which hit a heavily populated, mainly agricultural area of north China, said local officials.
Rescue operations Were continuing, they added, indicating that the final figure could be considerably higher. Ninety per cent of older buildings had been destroyed but transport and communications had not been seriously affected in the stricken area in Shan-
dong Province, 500 kms south of Peking. “People are going on with their lives as normal,” said one official in the Shandong Provincial Earthquake Bureau.
Telephone lines were open as usual to Dongming County, which together with neighbouring Heze received the brunt of the earthquake. But officials there declined to answer reporters questions.
The earthquake struck south-west Shandong with a force of 5.9 on the Richter
scale as peasants were preparing to go to work.
Houses with a total of 10,000 rooms were destroyed in Heze, situated in the fertile North China Plain which is prone to earthquakes and is one of the most heavily populated areas of the Chinese countryside.
The earthquake was not reported in the official press yesterday, except for the English-language “China Daily” which is aimed mainly at foreigners.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19831109.2.76
Bibliographic details
Press, 9 November 1983, Page 8
Word Count
202’Quake hits north China Press, 9 November 1983, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in