Longnan City is the worst-hit area in Gansu and also the hardest-hit area in the country. According to the preliminary statistics of counties, the earthquake involved 195 townships, 2,343 villages, 425,800 households and 1,747,600 people in Longnan City, and the city needs to relocate the population of 890,000 people. By 20:00 on May 17, the city's death toll of 275 people, the number of injured 6073 people. Injured people in all counties and districts have been quickly sent to nearby medical institutions for treatment. Preliminary estimates indicate that the earthquake caused direct economic losses of 1.957 billion yuan. Depending on the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake disaster, the number of casualties and the damage is likely to expand further.
The earthquake caused nine counties and districts in Longnan city urban and rural communications, electricity, water interruption, the counties county towns and the outside world transportation, communication all interrupted. As of 15:00 on May 16, the counties and districts reported statistics, the city collapsed 408,944 houses, damaged houses 749,005 986,860 square meters, some villages have become a ruin. The city's death of 3,176 head of large livestock, small livestock 22,416 head.
The earthquake caused serious damage to highway facilities, National Highway 212 Ganchuan section, Provincial Highway 206 Dayao Road, Provincial Highway 205 Jiangwu Highway, Provincial Highway 307 Baiwang Road and other sections of landslides, collapses, county and township roads are more seriously damaged. The earthquake also caused serious damage to the power grid and power facilities, Longnan South Power Grid (Wenxian Bikou area) due to the failure of power grid equipment and the large power grid cracked, unable to supply electricity. The earthquake also led to serious damage to telecommunications and communication facilities, China Telecom Longnan Branch exchange bureau station damaged 229 houses, damaged communications room 40, 5 agricultural exchange bureau houses collapsed.
The earthquake caused the city's nine counties (districts) 1,492 (at) water conservancy projects and facilities were damaged, of which: river embankment project 205, 589 drinking water projects, 288,140,000 people have difficulty in drinking water; destroyed hydrological monitoring station 2. Wenxian hanping mouth power station reservoir dam right shoulder (outer wall) has cracks, the dam downstream side of the frame berm displacement, part of the place subsidence, engine room subsidence, office building cracks are more serious; Xiho Huangjiang reservoir downstream of the foot of the dam seepage increased; Bikou dam damage, the displacement of the dam body.
Earthquake led to the city *** occurred loss of all types of secondary geological hazards 2077, of which: landslides 242, collapse 1019, ground collapse 11, ground cracks 805, due to geological hazards caused by the deaths of 82 people, injured 186 people, nearly 100,000 people are threatened by geological hazards. Landslides in Jialing Town, Huixian County, led to deformation of railroad tracks in Huixian section of Bao Cheng Railway, derailment of 40 wagons (of which 13 were loaded with gasoline) of 21043 Baoji-bound to Chengdu, fire in the locomotive, and burying of 13 sections of gasoline irrigation, which resulted in the interception of the Jialing River and the blockage of roads.
The quake caused serious damage to the city's schools, killing 10 students, seriously injuring 26, lightly injuring 67, and injuring five teachers. Damaged schools 2964, 1977 seriously affected schools, 23,178 affected school buildings, including 2305 collapsed school buildings, damaged desks and benches 1350 sets, damaged laboratory equipment 39,173 sets.
The earthquake caused serious damage to the tourism infrastructure, 25 tourist attractions (points) and four hotels were affected, and 2.1 million cubic meters of roads collapsed in scenic spots (points) in various counties and districts.
The earthquake caused 60 enterprises in the city to be affected, 55 stopped production, and direct economic losses of 153 million yuan.
These disasters, just the preliminary verification statistics of the counties and districts, are much higher than any previous natural disasters.