Hazards in Eastern Asia, China

    As one may or may not know, China is a very beautiful country located in the Eastern part of Asia. Unfortunately, there are a lot of natural hazards that happen in China, like earthquakes and floods.

    A recent earthquake took place in the southwest region of the country, specifically Luding county in Sichuan Province, on September 5, 2022. After doing some research on Disasterphilantrophy.org, I discovered that about 250 houses collapsed and more than 13,000 were damaged. Sichuan is located in a region where the crust of the Eurasian plate is deformed, resulting in high seismic activity between the Indian and Eurasian plates. In this case, that was the cause for this resulted 6.8 magnitude earthquake.

 

However, this incident doesn't take a great amount of spotlight from the rest of China, due to the high amount of disasters occurred throughout this giant country.