Tourism has become the biggest victim of an earthquake that struck southwest China, attracting millions of visitors annually. The disaster seeps into jiuzhaigou, a national factory and a famous UNESCO heritage site in china.
Most ethnic Tibetan and Qiang rely heavily on visitor income. Probably there will be no tourists this year. It may take more or less until three years into the future so that the normal situation again. Jiuzhaigou is full of over 145 lakes, ranging from crystal clear waters to green lakes located at the foot of a wooded mountain.
Visitors in a matter of days out of a total of 1.58 million tourists in July 2017. With the damage caused by earthquakes and landslides and horrific reports appeared on various social media. Many people were killed and wounded by huge rocks that crashed into buildings and cars.
The strength of the 6.3 earthquake on the Richter scale with a depth of 25.9 km Wednesday morning in the Todok area, more than 40 people were injured and 1000 more homes suffered severe damage.
And then in the quake area jiuzhaigou measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale with a depth of 10 km occurred on Tuesday night at 09.19. And after more than 1000 aftershocks, 50 people were killed and 400 injured, 700,000 people evacuated to safer places.
Yes indeed our friends sometimes we do not realize what we have done in this world, so what should we do because this is a terrible disaster, maybe this is a reproof from god for us who live in this world. So the incident recalled my life story in the earthquake and tsunami in my country that is Aceh and the international community cried while talking to aceh.
RIP for all the people who died in this earthquake. But we people of the world should understand this calamities are part of the destruction which we are doing to the earth.