How Hwee Young / EPA
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing scores of people and injuring thousands close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.
LUSHAN, China - Hundreds of survivors of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake that hit southwest China, killing nearly 200 people, pushed into traffic along a main road on Monday, waving protest signs, demanding help and shouting at police.
"We are in the open air here. No place to sleep, nothing to eat. No one is paying any attention to us," said Peng Qiong, 45, a farmer in Chaoyang village on the outskirts of Lushan, near the epicenter.
China has poured resources into Sichuan since Saturday's quake, including 1 billion yuan ($161.9 million) from central coffers for disaster relief and compensation. About 18,000 troops are in the area.
The earthquake killed at least 186 people and injured more than 11,000, state media said.
"Our leaders have visited and we're working getting these people food and water," said the officer, who declined to give his name.
Mountainous terrain and poor infrastructure have made reaching victims difficult. The Xinhua news agency said aftershocks had triggered landslides that blocked a main road.
In Zhongba village, part of Baoxing, residents said it took two days for help to arrive. When it did, supplies and tents were in short supply. Almost all buildings are damaged and many have collapsed.
Zhang Zhenghua, a 41-year-old farmer, said officials drove through the village on Monday and stopped briefly to apologize for the delay in help.
"The secretary mentioned subsidies to rebuild our homes. We hope they do what they say," Zhang said.
"AFTERTIME - THE HOURS, MONTHS, AND YEARS AFTER THE POLE SHIFT Hour After What will the Aftertime be like, immediately after the pole shift? Per the Zetas, filled with anger, the natural response to any assault, even if expected.
- ZetaTalk: Hour After, written Dec, 2002
- Throughout the world, survivors of the shift will react in different ways, depending upon their level of prior knowledge and their personality. Look about you to the survivors of sudden storms, tornadoes or lightning strikes. These individuals are devastated and basically in shock. They understand that something unexpected has occurred, and they have lost loved ones, lost possessions, perhaps themselves are injured so life as they remembered it can never return, and are grieving. If the result of an expected catastrophe, like an approaching hurricane where they boarded up windows and tied down all that might blow away, the survivors might be angry at themselves for lack of proper preparation, or angry at the gods for delivering the storm, or angry at the authorities for not issuing an earlier warning, or angry at the insurance companies for not replacing lost goods, but anger is the mode.
Now add to this the additional devastation of no helping hands arriving, and even those simply grieving at the loss will become angry. If the survivors were expecting the shift, were in what they considered a safe place and all supplies and loved ones tied down and out of the wind and water surges, there will still be anger. Even had they convinced themselves that they understood this to be a normal astrophysical occurrence, and prepared for it, anger is a normal reaction to loss, or assault. Thus, survivors, even in camps where all were mentally prepared, will be angry, red faced, and wanting to explode on some excuse of another. What to do with all that anger?
Direct it into activity, productive activity. Nature, for survival, has engineered into the human animal flight or fight, and you can expect your human animals to want to do one or the other. There are those that will run, hysterical, trying to escape the devastation and only returning when their energy has exhausted itself and they are again calm. There are those that will want to fight, something, and will take this emotion out on the group unless directed elsewhere. In cases such as this, a quick directive to save this or that supply, to save this or that child about to bleed to death, to rush to another camp to find out how they faired, will direct this energy into action, the purpose of the fight or flight emotion. Those with a calm head, and those about them who may need to take over in case the calm head is not so calm as expected, after the shift, should be prepared with this list and bark orders, promptly. Do not wait until fighting among the group breaks out, bickering, explosion, and the need to mend fences afterwards. Be prepared in the first minutes after the shift, when survivors are emerging and dusting themselves off, red faced and looking for the enemy." - "I've thought of an action list for the community I live in.
This would
include sending teenagers out to locate section of siding or roof tops to be
used for temporary lean-to's, to keep survivors out of the rain.
And
collecting bedding thrown about by the hurricane force winds, pulling the
mattresses under the lean-to's and hanging the bedding up to dry out of the
drizzle and rain that is expected worldwide.
And young children could find
crockery, unbroken, wash these so a communal meal might be planned, almost made
into a festive affair for these young children.
Refrigerators should be
emptied before their contents can spoil, and any farm animals injured during the
hour of the shift and needing to be put down could be prepared for a community
barbeque.
Of course, those able to work with the injured, do first aid or
medical procedures, should be engaged in these activities from the first
moments.
Others can be involved in locating the dead and getting them ready
for burial.
But burying the dead is not always possible, per the Zetas."
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