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永久的香格

Chinese earthquake rescue
中国震后搜救工作

                                                                                 
Sichuan province has a history of deadly earthquakes
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Summary
22 April 2013
China is continuing a massive rescue operation in Sichuan province, with thousands of workers, after a powerful earthquake on Saturday.
自周六四川省发生强震以来，中国数千名工作人员还在进行大规模的搜救工作。
Reporter: John Sudworth

Report

Rescue teams had already reached the remote villages in mountainous Baoxing County on foot, but landslides were blocking access to aid trucks and preventing some of the casualties from being brought out.

Now state media is reporting that a path has been cleared, although, in heavy fog, and with regular aftershocks, the going is slow.

Even in the more accessible areas of neighbouring Lushan county the aid effort has been hampered by congestion on the single road in, and some of those who've been made homeless are complaining that they've not yet received food or water.

Although on the same fault line, this earthquake was much less powerful than the one that struck Sichuan Province in 2008, and the death toll is not expected to rise significantly.

Once again though it is the poor who have borne the brunt of the disaster, with the biggest killer not the earthquake itself, but poorly constructed houses.

Vocabulary

mountainous：having a lot of mountains
on foot：by walking (without using transport or vehicles)
landslides：falls of rocks and earth down a mountain or slope
casualties：people who have been injured or killed in an accident or war
state media：media organisations controlled by the government
aftershocks：small earthquakes that follow a bigger one
the going is slow：progress is difficult or slow
hampered：made difficult
fault line：a long, deep crack in the Earth's surface
death toll：the number of people who died because of an event
borne the brunt of：suffered the main effects of