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Chilling footage shows Shenzhen landslide claim entire BLOCKS; 91 now missing in disaster (VIDEO)
A horrifying video of a landslide swallowing up the city of Shenzhen in southern China shows entire buildings being gobbled up in seconds. Meanwhile, the number of people missing has jumped to 91, China Central Television (CCTV) reports.
The disaster occurred in the Hengtaiyu industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Sunday morning, destroying a total of 22 buildings and causing a gas pipeline explosion.
Shocking video footage from CCTV shows an entire multi-level building collapse in under five-seconds. At first, people are in disbelief, but are then seen running away from the landslide seeking safety.
China’s Ministry of Land & Resources has blamed the disaster on a collapse of piled-up construction waste and soil residue in the area, state media said. It also cited a local emergency office giving a sharply increased estimate of the number of people missing. The figure had previously stood at 59.
Over the weekend, a mammoth 8.5-meter long, 3.9-ton whale was found dead, washed ashore near Rizhao city in Shandong province.
The
locals informed the city bureau of ocean and fishery, who arrived
quickly to see one truly massive whale carcass that would have to be
moved.
According to NetEase,
the staff's initial evaluation was that the whale had been killed by
getting tangled up in a fishing net and strangling to death. They needed
to get it back to the freezing plant for further examination, so with
quite a bit of effort they used a crane to lift the carcass up on a
truck and away they went.
Published: 09:25 EST, 24 November 2015 | Updated: 20:28 EST, 24 November 2015
Danger list: Endangered primates that are battling for survival
They
are our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, yet more than
half of the world's primates are facing extinction due to our
destruction of the habitats where they live.
Burning
and clearing of large areas of tropical forest, combined with hunting
of primates for food and illegal wildlife trade, has placed many species
of apes, lemurs and monkeys at risk of dying out.
These
include iconic species such as the Sumatran orang-utan, Grauer's
gorilla, the Northern brown howler monkey and the Hainan gibbon.
More
than half of the world's primates are at risk of dying out due to the
threat posed by habitat loss and hunting. The Hainan gibbon (pictured)
is thought to be the world's most endangered primate, with just 25 of
the animals left living on an isolated island in China
Scientists
and conservation experts have now updated a report on the world's 25
most endangered primates based on the current knowledge of the animals
numbers and the risks facing them.
Dr
Christoph Schwitzer, a primatologist and director of conservation at
Bristol Zoological Society who helped compile the list, said: 'This
research highlights the extent of the danger facing many of the world's
primates.
Hong Kong gets a jolt as earthquake hits southeastern China
PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 September, 2015, 1:21am
UPDATED : Friday, 25 September, 2015, 1:32am
Danny Mok
Some mainland residents at an unknown location run for cover.
Hongkongers
reported feeling a tremor late last night when an earthquake of
magnitude 3.8 shook the southeastern mainland city of Shantou in
Guangdong province.
The Hong Kong Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.57pm near the coast of southeastern China.
The epicenter was located about 110km west-southwest of Shantou, or about 180km east-northeast of Hong Kong.
The depth of the focus was 16km, according to the mainland’s Earthquake Networks Center.
As of 1am today, no casualties were reported by mainland media.
Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist!
EDIS Number:
EQ-20150924-514636-CN
Magnitude:
4.7
Mercalli scale:
4
Date-Time [UTC]:
24 September, 2015 at 16:50:41 UTC
Local Date/Time:
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 21:50 in the evening at epicenter
Coordinate:
78° 9.072, 37° 33.576
Depth:
36.88 km (22.92 miles)
Hypocentrum:
Shallow depth
Class:
Light
Region:
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Country:
China
Location:
69.00 km (42.87 miles) S of Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China
Source:
USGS
Generated Tsunami:
Not
Damage:
Not or no data
The potential impact of the earthquake
Most
people indoors feel movement. Hanging objects swing. Dishes, windows,
and doors rattle. The earthquake feels like a heavy truck hitting the
walls. A few people outdoors may feel movement. Parked cars rock.
Photo
taken on May 10, 2014 shows flood in Wawutang Township of Suining
County, central China's Hunan Province. Heavy rains started to hit
Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one township
hitting 186 mm by noon. One person was killed in a rain-triggered
landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000
residents in Suining. [Xinhua]
One
person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide while flooding has
forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in a county in central
China's Hunan Province, local authorities said Saturday. Heavy rains
started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in
one township hitting 186 mm by noon, the office of the county flood
control headquarters said in a statement. The rainstorms disrupted
traffic, power and telecommunications in 10 townships. One villager in
Jinwutang Township was killed in a landslide. A total of 112,000
residents were affected and 10,000 have been evacuated, it said. Also on
Saturday, a rainstorm-triggered flash flood tore down 14 houses and two
bridges, damaged flood-control dikes and inundated a hydropower
generation plant in Fugong County in southwest China's Yunnan Province,
local authorities said. A total of 264 people in risk-prone areas have
been relocated to safe places, the county publicity department said.
Earlier the county was battered by rains on Thursday and Friday.
English.news.cn
2014-05-10 19:05:17 Photo
taken on May 10, 2014 shows flooded farmland in Wawutang Township of
Suining County, central China's Hunan Province. Heavy rains started to
hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one
township hitting 186 mm by noon. One person was killed in a
rain-triggered landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of
another 10,000 residents in Suining. (Xinhua)
CHANGSHA,
May 10 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide
while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in a
county in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said
Saturday.
Heavy rains started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m.
Saturday, with precipitation in one township hitting 186 mm by noon, the
office of the county flood control headquarters said in a statement.
The
rainstorms disrupted traffic, power and telecommunications in 10
townships. One villager in Jinwutang Township was killed in a landslide.
A total of 112,000 residents were affected and 10,000 have been evacuated, it said.
Also
on Saturday, a rainstorm-triggered flash flood tore down 14 houses and
two bridges, damaged flood-control dikes and inundated a hydropower
generation plant in Fugong County in southwest China's Yunnan Province,
local authorities said.
A total of 264 people in risk-prone areas have been relocated to safe places, the county publicity department said.
Earlier the county was battered by rains on Thursday and Friday.
Rain to Continue as Shenzhen Flood Disaster to Cost RMB 80 Million
Charles Liucharlesliu@thenanfang.com Posted: 05/13/2014 3:12 pm
Despite a brief respite from the storm yesterday, the forecast calls for more rain to fall on the Pearl River Delta for an additional seven days as Shenzhen tries to deal with the aftermath of its flooding disaster.
As
a direct result of the torrential rain that fell on Southern China from
May 8-12, Shenzhen has suffered an economic loss of more than RMB 80
million with a total of 25,531 residents affected by the flooding, reports Yangcheng Evening News.
Furthermore,
it is reported a total of 2,986 people have been relocated, 10 houses
have collapsed, and some 11.97 thousand square kilometers of crops have
been destroyed.
Relief efforts to aid disaster victims are already underway. Two Shenzhen storm disaster areas have seen residents rescued from potentially dangerous flooding.
Beijing still not releasing soil pollution data: Xinhua
Xinhua
Technical staff examine soil contaminated by heavy metal pollution. (File photo/Huang Chih-liang)
China's
Ministry of Environmental Protection will not issue data related to
soil pollution for the time being but will discuss the situation after
an in-depth investigation, the ministry confirmed on Thursday. The
ministry said it will be difficult to investigate soil pollution
nationwide, adding that it will conduct further investigations in
heavily polluted areas.
In January, Beijing lawyer Dong Zhengwei
sent an application to the ministry asking it to issue soil pollution
data, as well as create detailed measures to handle it.
The
ministry said in February that the data is a state secret and refused to
issue it. Dong was not satisfied and sent a second request. In response
the ministry said soil pollution is still being investigated and
related data remains a state secret, adding that data will be released
after further evaluation. After news of Dong's requests spread online,
many people began to wonder just how polluted the country's soil is.
Ma
Jun, head of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, said in
an interview with the Legal Daily that polluted soil may affect public
health via food, crops and underground water.
"Soil pollution is
related to public health. Therefore, the public should have the right to
be informed about the situation," Ma said.
More dead pigs found in China river: report Beijing
(AFP) April 17, 2014 - At least 170 dead pigs have been found in a
Chinese river, state media reported Thursday -- the latest in a string
of similar incidents that have raised fears over food safety.The
animals were found floating in a tributary of China's second-longest
waterway, the Yellow River, in northwestern Qinghai province, the
official Xinhua news agency said.The grim discovery follows a series of
scandals involving dead pigs in Chinese rivers. Last year 16,000
carcasses were found drifting through the main waterway of the
commercial hub of Shanghai.In Qinghai -- the furthest west such an
incident has been reported -- "the source of the dead pigs is still
under investigation," Xinhua said, citing local authorities.Industry
analysts say sick pigs are sometimes dumped in rivers by farmers hoping
to avoid paying the costs of disposing of the animals by other means.Around
500 dead pigs are recovered every month from a Chinese reservoir in the
southwestern province of Sichuan, state-run media reported in March.
Authorities also found 157 dead pigs last month in a river in central Jiangxi province.
China is a major producer of pork, which surveys have found to be the country's most popular meat.
A
huge area of China's soil covering more than twice the size of Spain is
estimated to be polluted, the government said Thursday, announcing
findings of a survey previously kept secret.
Of about 6.3 million
square kilometres (2.4 million square miles) of soil surveyed -- roughly
two thirds of China's total area -- 16.1 percent is thought to be
polluted, the environmental protection ministry said in a report.
The study, which appeared on its website, blamed mining and farming practices among other causes.
"The
national soil pollution situation is not positive," the ministry said,
adding that more than 19 percent of the farmland which was surveyed is
polluted.
The ministry last year described the results of its soil
pollution survey as a state secret and refused to release the results, a
move which incensed environmental campaigners.
The government has
come under increasing pressure in recent years to take action to
improve the environment, with large parts of the country repeatedly
blanketed in thick smog and waterways and land polluted.
In
many parts of China, officials are caught between two competing
priorities: industrial development and food production. Most often,
officials’ prime concern is industrial development—characterized by
factories and mining, usually—since it is the bigger driver of economic
growth. But, predictably, unfettered industrial development results in
extremely poor conditions for food production. And it’s getting worse.
Much worse. An article in yesterday’s New York Times has some sobering statistics.
An
alarming glimpse of official findings came on Monday, when a vice
minister of land and resources, Wang Shiyuan, said at a news conference
in Beijing that eight million acres of China’s farmland, equal to the
size of Maryland, had become so polluted that planting crops on it
“should not be allowed.” [...]
One-sixth of China’s arable land —
nearly 50 million acres — suffers from soil pollution, according to a
book published this year by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
The book, “Soil Pollution and Physical Health,” said that more than 13
million tons of crops harvested each year were contaminated with heavy
metals, and that 22 million acres of farmland were affected by
pesticides.
The result of farming on polluted land is
unsurprising: poisoned food. 155 batches of rice collected from markets
and restaurants in Guangdong Province in May were found to have excess
levels of cadmium.
