China rushes to help, with 50,000 people relocated due to the Sichuan earthquake.

Over 50,000 people have been relocated to safer areas following building damage caused by a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County in China’s southwest Sichuan province, killing at least 46 people.

Wang Feng, deputy director of the Sichuan provincial emergency management department, told a media briefing in Chengdu on Monday night that 16 people were missing and over 50 were injured.

The dead included 29 people from Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which administers Luding County, and 17 from Ya’an City. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, over 50,000 people in Ganzi and Ya’an have safely evacuated.

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Luding County at 12:52 p.m. on Monday (Beijing Time) (CENC).

For the earthquake, Sichuan activated the highest level of emergency response.

Over 6,500 rescuers, four helicopters, and two unmanned aerial vehicles had been dispatched to the front lines by the province.

“Many aftershocks occurred, and some roads were closed. To get to Moxi’s town square, we had to climb over the debris, “According to Xinhua, a provincial forest fire brigade rescuer.

Houses and infrastructure have suffered varying degrees of damage, and some roads have partially collapsed.

Moxi town’s electricity and communications had been cut off, and emergency power-generation equipment was supplying electricity to residents taking refuge in the square.

According to Liu Fang, a local official, after the earthquake, she and her colleagues immediately evacuated the residents to a square several hundred meters away.

Medical personnel from Moxi and neighboring villages and townships responded immediately after the earthquake, according to medics on the scene.