May all types of natural disasters which caused the country's 126 people were killed and 6 others missing | _ natural disasters news
June 9, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs website news, May, all types of natural disasters causing nationwide a total of 21.821 million people affected, 126 people were killed and 6 others missing, 777,000 emergency transfer placement, 518,000 passengers for emergency relief.
Recently, Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Committee for disaster reduction Office in conjunction with the Ministry of industry and information technology, Ministry of land and resources, Ministry of transport, Ministry of water resources, agriculture, health, family planning, Bureau of statistics, the Forestry Bureau, earthquakes, Weather Bureau, the China insurance regulatory Commission, marine Bureau, general staff headquarters, the general political Department, the Red Cross Society of China for May 2014, the National Railway Corporation conducted in consultation with the analysis of the natural disaster.
Approved in May China's natural disasters dominated by flood, earthquake, drought, wind-hail, freezing and snow storms, mountain collapses, landslides and forest fires and other disasters have occurred to varying degrees. All types of natural disasters causing nationwide a total of 21.821 million people affected, 126 people were killed and 6 others missing, 777,000 emergency transfer placement and 518,000 passengers required emergency life assistance; 54,000 homes, 323,000 varying degrees of damage affected an area of 2403.5 hectares of crops, with downpours 252.7 hectares; 25.64 billion yuan of direct economic losses.
Natural disasters May render the following characteristics.
The South extreme precipitation frequency and affected both urban and rural areas. May, South area has suffered 5 times big range strong precipitation process, Fujian, and Jiangxi, and Hunan, and Guangdong, and Guangxi and Guizhou 6 province (autonomous region) average precipitation and rainstorm day number respectively for 1976 yilai history over times more and up, Guangdong Southeast area partial more 1-2 times, Guangdong conghua (May 23, 288.7 mm) and Hunan xinshao (May 25, 159.6 mm) day precipitation breakthrough history extreme. The overall look, and May focus on flood and waterlogging disasters occur, emergency relocated population and the number of houses collapsed almost 10 years over the second and third, respectively, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou provinces disaster heavier. Shenzhen, Guangdong and Hunan Hengyang, Huaihua and other serious water logging, urban water, produce greater impact on the lives of local people.
Second is the Yunnan earthquake fire blast, superposition effects of disasters worse. In May, the Mainland of China were above magnitude 4 earthquake occurred 10 times, the overall number slightly less than over the same period in recent years. Among them, 3 times above magnitude 5 earthquake epicentre is located in yingjiang County, Yunnan province, namely, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake that occurred on May 24, May 30 in a row a 6.1-magnitude earthquake of magnitude 5.1 earthquake swarms, continuous earthquake causing more injuries, damage to a large number of houses collapsed, and varying degrees of all types of infrastructure damage, severe impact to local production and living of the masses. Furthermore, on May 7, 4.7-magnitude earthquake in Chuxiong Yi nationality autonomous prefecture in yuanmou County of Yunnan province also caused damage to some houses. Judging from the disaster, disaster emergency relocated populations caused by earthquake in May this year and the number of houses collapsed after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake had occurred.
Third, low temperature and high temperature contrast, frozen heat wave ensued. In May, the national average temperature of phase change characteristics significantly. First half for the minimum value for the same period since 1997; the second half for the second-highest value during the same period since 1961. While, North area has suffered 3 times strong cooling process, as, May early Northeast, and North, and in Inner Mongolia, part area maximum cooling 8 ℃ above, Hebei Zhangjiakou yangyuan County May 5 early this morning minimum temperatures dropped-5 ℃, cryogenic frozen and snowstorm caused part area corn, and wheat and vegetable, crop loss more heavy, crop affected area, and directly economic loss are for near 10 years over maximum; on the, North, and yellow Huai and Southwest, to appeared big range high temperature weather, More than 35 ℃ high temperature area of 720,000 square kilometers, there are 155 stations to extreme high temperature events, Yuanyang, Yunnan, Hebei, Beijing Changping 34 stations, such as daily maximum temperatures in their historic extremes. In addition, much of Yunnan low precipitation over a year earlier to 50%-80%, high temperature 1-4 ℃, the drought continued development.
Four are forest fire and heavy casualties, and forestry pests active. In May, the forest fires in the country, 3273, mainly concentrated in Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, death tolls of 41 people, injured 31 people, forest fires are tilted posture. In May, the main forestry pest entry into active life, disaster overall rise in incidents increased, causing 2.437 million hectares of forest were affected.
(Original title: May all types of natural disasters which caused the country's 126 people were killed and 6 others missing)
(Edit: SN098)
17:34 June 09, 2014 China News Network
