Snowslide hits southwest Chinese province
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-24 16:16

A heavy snowslide has covered 267 hectares of pasture in Maqen County in the southeastern part of Qinghai Province last week.

As the snowslide-hit county is a sparsely-populated prairie, there are no reports of casualties so far.

The snowslide, the largest of its kind in the history of the region, mingled with ice rocks, stones and mud, fell from the 6, 386-meter-high Anyemaqen Mountain to a 5,000-meter-long and 3,000-meter-wide area, said Sun Yimiao, an official of the autonomous region.

As a result, the courses of at least three rivers in the region were blocked and formed a lake, which cut off traffic to a nearby grazing yard with 175 households. The local government has taken immediate measures to help herdsmen solve the daily life problems.

Geologists found cracks on Anyemaqen Mountain and predicted more snowslides in summer or autumn.

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