/kloc-in the early morning of 0/2, many people in Hengyang were awakened by phone calls from relatives and friends about the "Hengyang earthquake", and more than 65,438+tens of thousands of "sleepy" people were evacuated to the outdoor. The squares, streets and open spaces of the city are crowded with asylum seekers, and everyone is dragging their children to help the elderly and young people wait for the dawn.
The alarm number 1 10 was "exploded" by the people who consulted, and the mobile network was once "blocked". A large number of policemen were deployed in various street squares to maintain order. Holding a horn, the police explained to the public again and again that there was no earthquake in Hengyang and called on the public to remain calm.
A middle school in Hengyang City also evacuated students overnight and placed them in safe areas such as lawns.
In several counties and towns in Hengyang, a large number of people have also left their homes and taken refuge in open areas. It was not until 4 o'clock in the morning that citizens who went out to avoid danger began to return home one after another.
On the morning of 12, Chen Xinwen, a member of the party group and consultant of Hengyang municipal government, answered a reporter's question about the earthquake that occurred in some villages in Hengyang on the evening of February 1 1 2, saying that after monitoring by the national, provincial and municipal seismic networks, there was no earthquake in Hengyang and its surrounding areas, and the reason for the earthquake was that a certain unit of the air force stationed in Hengyang was ordered to conduct military drills.
The government informed the cause of the earthquake: the military exercise triggered the earthquake.
Chen Xinwen, on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, told Hengyang people yesterday that the cause of the vibration was a military exercise conducted by a certain unit in Hengyang from 6: 00 1 February to 6: 001February. At the same time, he expressed his appreciation for Hengyang people's strong sense of earthquake prevention.
According to the reporter's understanding, yesterday morning, the secretary of Hengyang Municipal Party Committee Zhang and the mayor held an emergency meeting, fully affirming the people's awareness of earthquake prevention in Hengyang, and said that they would further improve the government's ability to deal with public emergencies and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
The municipal earthquake monitoring station told this reporter that since 8: 25 pm on February 1 1, the monitoring station has received dozens of calls, and people have been calling to report abnormal vibrations. According to records, there were violent vibrations in Hengyang County, Qidong County, Hengdong County, Hengnan County, leiyang city and other places in the city around 5 pm and 8 pm, accompanied by earthquakes such as glass shaking and rolling gate ringing. Among them, Jin Lan Town of Hengyang County, Jinxingmiao Town, Quanxi Town of Hengnan County, hongshan town and Donghu Township of leiyang city have the strongest reaction.
To this end, the Municipal Seismological Bureau launched an emergency plan, and the Municipal Seismological Station strengthened the detection and contacted the Provincial Seismological Bureau. After close monitoring, it was found that there was no earthquake in the province, outside the province and Hengyang City.
Although Hengyang is located in the earthquake fault zone, there is no destructive earthquake.
According to the introduction of the Municipal Seismological Bureau, Hengyang is located in the Cretaceous-Paleogene fault basin of Hengyang, with Liuyang-Hengyang-Yongzhou active fault zone in the west and Shaoyang-Chenzhou active fault zone in the south, which contains Mesozoic and Cenozoic intrusive fire mountains, with complex structure and environmental conditions for destructive earthquakes.
There have been many destructive earthquakes in Hengyang history. Since the accurate record of 1974, there have been 25 earthquakes in Hengyang * * *, with the maximum magnitude of 3.5. From 2007 to 2008, there were four earthquakes in Hengyang, but none of them were destructive.
At present, earthquake prediction is a difficult problem in the world, but earthquake monitoring in China is in a leading position in the world. Hengyang seismic station was put into use in 2007, and any vibration in the urban area can be completely detected.
The Municipal Seismological Office appealed to the public to correctly understand the hazards of earthquakes, remain calm, and handle them correctly according to the common sense of earthquakes.