Strong earthquake combined with large flood caused a dam failure in China on July 29

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in China caused many casualties in the early morning of July 29.
After the strong earthquake in China: People died, bridges collapsed, houses were damaged.
In the midst of boiling water, a terrible earthquake occurred that made the people of China extremely bewildered.

A strong earthquake in Qinghai province collapsed a bridge over a river, damaged a highway and caused some roads to crack and severely deform. In Yunnan, 22 people died.

earthquake shakes in the last 24 hours.

To date, at least 22 deaths and 27 injuries have been recorded in Yunnan province.

Earlier, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred in Yangxi county, Yunnan province on the morning of May 22.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Mr. Truong The Vi, Secretary of Duong Ty District Party Committee, said that up to now, the whole district has about 22,000 households and 75,000 people affected by the earthquake. There were 14,000 houses damaged, of which 189 houses collapsed completely.

Ma Da district in Qinghai province has recorded a total of 104 aftershocks and 40 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or higher. A strong earthquake in Qinghai province collapsed a bridge over a river and damaged a highway. Some roads are cracked and severely deformed.

Chinese authorities fear the quake will cause alarming dam and reservoir failures. The consequences will be extremely terrible for the people here if the dams, reservoirs, when threatened by flood peaks.
This is considered the largest earthquake in recent decades. Here in China, it is extremely dangerous when the flood is big in many provinces of China.

Floodwaters washed away two dams in other parts of China this week.

Heavy rains and rising floodwaters cause flooding in central China's Henan province. Metro stations in Zhengzhou city, Henan province were submerged in flood water and vehicles were swept away by water on the road last week.
The flood water level is still very large and threatened by prolonged rains in the following days.

Its 7 million inhabitants are facing an even more serious threat, that of the Yihetan Dam that prevents the Yellow River from flooding the city, which is in danger of bursting.

The People's Liberation Army of China announced that a "hole about 20 meters" had appeared in the dam body after yesterday's earthquake, and that the entire structure of the Yihetan Dam was "damaged". could crash at any time. "

According to the Shanghai Daily, "20,000 armed soldiers and police" have been deployed to the Yihetan dam and another dam in Henan province to prevent damaging floods. and cracks that can result from an earthquake.

Flooding is common during the rainy season in China. The construction of many dams has taken place, and as a result, the rivers that once carried floodwater away from the delta have been diverted, leading to more complex flood patterns.

Last week, two dams broke on July 19 in China's Inner Mongolia region, flooding more than 20,000 hectares of land with floodwaters, and washing away dozens of bridges and culverts. About 16,000 locals were affected, many of them forced to evacuate.

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