Reserviours, Lakes in danger after quake China

2008-05-26 20:39:44 - Office of the State cabinet said 65000 dead 23,150 persons were still missing.Ministry of Water resources said three reservoirs were in danger of collapse in northwest China's Shaanxi Province after the 6.4 magnitude aftershock in Sichuan Province yesterday, that left six persons dead and nearly thousand other injured.

Three reservoirs are in danger of collapse in northwest China's Shaanxi Province after the 6.4 magnitude aftershock in Sichuan Province Sunday, that left six persons dead and nearly thousand other injured.

Chinese authorities raced in time to tackle a new danger posed to over 700,000 people by artificial lakes formed by landslides and reservoirs in danger of collapse.
Total of 2,383 reservoirs were "in danger" following the May 12 devastating quake of 8 magnitude, Xinhua news agency said quoting the Ministry of Water resources.

The confirmed toll today increased by 4,520 to reach 65,080, the Office of the State Council or the cabinet said, while 23,150 persons were still missing.

More than millions of peoples are affected by the tremblor on 12 May and its continous thousands of tremor is giving sleepless nights to peoples and authorities.

The troops and armed police reached a giant lake at Tangjiashan in the quake-pummeled Sichuan province to blast away the landslide barrier before it bursts and causes floods.

A state of emergency like situation is there for team of disaster managment and the ruling Communist Party of China's top leadership said efforts to find survivors should continue in the quake-struck zones but more focus should be on resettlement and post-quake reconstruction.

CPC Political Bureau said the May 12 quake was the "most powerful tremor with most widespread impact and the most difficult for disaster relief since new China was founded in 1949."
China northwest rest on most active tectonic plates and the China has been building their structure keeping in view of this natural calamity.