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Shenzhen, China tornado: 27 March 2006: Longgang and Pingshan districts, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China: 5 fatalities, 12 injuries [34] Anhui, China tornado: 29 June 2006: Sixian County, Anhui Province China: 3 fatalities, 46 injuries: Deaths from the collapse of a school roof on students. [35] [36] Southeast China tornado: 3 July 2007
[33] [34] Throughout China, an estimated 100 tornadoes may occur per year with a few exceeding F4 in intensity, with activity most prevalent in eastern regions. [35] During the period of 1948 until 2013, 4763 tornadoes were confirmed in China. [36]
The People's Republic of China established a National Earthquake Administration in 1971 to take charge of monitoring, research, and emergency response for earthquakes. It was renamed China Earthquake Administration (CEA) in 1998, mandated by the Earthquake prevention and Disaster Reduction Act of PRC [4] under the State Council. Each provincial ...
A tornado struck the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Saturday, killing five people and damaging more than 140 factory buildings, state media said. The China Meteorological Administration ...
Last year, China's Jiangsu was hit by a violent tornado which killed 10 people after torrential r. The tornado hit the city's Baiyun district on Saturday afternoon, the report said, adding it had ...
Three visually stunning tornadoes have struck China over the last week, part of a series of natural disasters in the sprawling country of more than 1.4 billion people. The latest tornado to be ...
A total of 99 people were killed by the two tornadoes, and 846 others were injured, [11] [12] including 152 in critical condition. [5] China's news service, Xinhua, called the event one of the deadliest disasters to hit Jiangsu in decades, [13] and the deadliest tornado to hit China in half a century. [14]
Aerial photos posted by Chinese state media on Sunday showed wide devastation in part of the southern city of Guangzhou after a tornado swept through the day before, killing five people, injuring ...