At 9:55:13 a.m. on Friday, May 23, 2008, a strong earthquake struck near Aoki County, Tat Son Province.

The earthquake affected most of China and many Asian countries and regions, with Beijiang in the north, Shanghai in the east, Thailand and Vietnam in the south, and Pakistan in the west.

At the moment of the earthquake, the tall buildings shook en masse.

In a QQ group, people from all over the world were chatting, and suddenly someone said, "How do I feel that the building is shaking?"

"I feel it too. ”

"My desk is shaking......"

"Your Jinling building is also shaking?"

", there's an earthquake. ”

"Run!"

“……”

Emergency Evacuation !!

People run from office buildings, shopping malls, schools, homes to the streets, and in many cities, doctors and nurses in white coats run out of the hospital with newborn babies in their arms, settle the babies in, and run back to the hospital to transfer the patients out.

People in horror are busy talking on the phone, or looking up at the building that has just shaken.

Everyone was aware that there was an earthquake, but they just didn't know where the epicenter was.

Ten minutes after the earthquake struck, at 10:05 a.m., the National Earthquake Administration quickly released the news to the public through its official website - 9:55 a.m. 8 occurred in Aoki County, Sishan Province. A magnitude 1 earthquake.

Another 5 minutes later, at 10:10 a.m., the CCTV news channel urgently inserted the "breaking news" - the latest news from the National Earthquake Administration, at 9:55 a.m. today, 8 on the Richter scale occurred in Aoki County, Sishan Province, China. Magnitude 1 earthquake. According to preliminary investigations, the maximum intensity of the earthquake was 11 to 12 degrees, and the area of particularly serious damage reached 150,000 square kilometers. Experts estimate that the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 10 to 15 kilometers. For casualties and losses in the disaster area, please pay attention to the follow-up report of this station.

As soon as CCTV's "breaking news" came out, major web portals immediately followed up and quickly released the latest and most authoritative earthquake news.

Within a few minutes, countless people from the country suspected that a major earthquake had occurred, and officially confirmed where the energy center of the earth shook just now - the four mountains, Aoki!

People were stunned to see the news of the earthquake on TV and on the Internet!

The tragic Tangshan earthquake in everyone's memory is 7. Magnitude 8, but the news says that the earthquake that happened in Sishan just now reached 8. Level 1!

8。 Level 1!!

Anyone who knows about earthquakes knows that earthquakes differ by 0 on the Richter scale. Level 1, energy difference of 1. 4 times, now Aoki's 8. Level 1 is a full 7 than Tangshan. Level 8 is 0 higher. Level 3.

Oh my God, how many casualties does this have to cause?

Soon, countless people called Sishan, wondering if their family and friends in Sishan were safe. Immediately afterwards, everyone found that Sishan's phone number could not be reached seven or eight times out of ten.

People "groaned" in their hearts at the same time, something really happened!

Aoki: A small county town that is unfamiliar to many people has attracted the attention of the whole of China and the whole world, and countless Chinese people are waiting in front of televisions, radios, and computers to inquire about the news of compatriots in the disaster area.

In the forum and on Weibo, countless Internet messages are being transmitted rapidly, and thousands of words finally converge into one sentence - "Aoki hold on, the four mountains hold on, and China hold on!"

Everything about Aoki was reported on TV, and the people's soldiers rushed to the disaster area as soon as possible. Twenty minutes after the earthquake, the helicopters of the Shudu Military Region appeared in the air, but the air channel was blocked by heavy rain and thick clouds.

As the latest news was released one by one, the disaster was much more serious than expected: casualties were reported in more than 10 provinces, and most of the disaster areas were in mountainous areas, strong earthquakes caused communication and power supply interruptions, geological disasters caused by earthquakes collapsed bridges, roads were blocked, counties and towns at the epicenter lost contact with the outside world, roads were completely cut off, and there was no news from the hard-hit areas at the epicenter.

The disaster is urgent!!

An emergency mobilization order was issued to the whole country.

Less than an hour after the earthquake, the State Council launched a first-level disaster relief emergency response, which was the first time that the country had launched a first-level disaster relief response.

At 11:10, the professional rescue team of the National Earthquake Administration boarded the plane in Yanjing and flew to Shudu with professional rescue equipment. In addition, rescue teams composed of engineers, doctors, and experts gathered from all over the country to Sishan Shudu.

Isolated from communications and with constant aftershocks, the disaster area has become an isolated city where death and injury can be lost at any time.

Time is of the essence, the whole country is mobilized, and everyone has only one purpose - earthquake relief and saving lives!

Railways, air transport, and large trucks with red flags and slogans marched from all directions to the four mountains, endlessly. Medicine, food, tents, quilts, mineral water, and other relief materials are continuously delivered to the disaster area.

All hospitals in the neighboring provinces and cities of Sishan have activated their emergency plans and mobilized all forces to prepare to receive the wounded in the affected areas. At the same time, a large number of ambulances and medical personnel gathered in the disaster area and traveled thousands of miles to help the disaster area.

Long queues have formed outside blood donation stations across the country, and many people even brave the rain with umbrellas to wait outside the blood donation stations to donate blood.

There were four or five-year-old children who walked to the donation box with their piggy banks, stood on tiptoe and put the coins in their hands into the donation box, and then said to the staff in a children's voice: "Uncle and aunt, please transfer this money to the children in the disaster area." ”

University students, veterans, public welfare organizations, ordinary citizens, and thousands of volunteers traveled to the disaster area by various means of transportation. In Shudu, many citizens and their brothers spontaneously went to the supermarket to buy a large amount of instant noodles and mineral water, filled the back seat and trunk of the car, and then drove onto the highway leading to the disaster area......

On the Internet, there are inquiries of concern and affectionate encouragement -

"Today, we are all Aoki people. ”

"Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry for the motherland, don't cry for the compatriots in the disaster area!"

"When this national crisis is in place, we can all do something. ”

"Maybe the strength of the individual is insignificant, maybe the help of the individual is a drop in the bucket, but when all the hearts are connected together is the of love, and all the hands held together is a great wall of love, the great nation will not bow to any difficulties!"

"The loss of every life is our common sorrow, withstand, my compatriots! withstand, my brothers and sisters!"

"Let's stand up straight, let's persevere, because persistence is a kind of strength, persistence means opportunity, it means new life. ”

In the face of disaster, the spirit of the Chinese nation shook the world!

Within six hours, rescue teams, material transport planes, and journalists arrived at Shudu Airport one after another, and the Chinese government's strong social mobilization and organizational capabilities, as well as the unity and national cohesion of the Chinese people, surprised foreign political media and expressed their sincere admiration.

It was also six hours after the earthquake that the outside world received the first call from Yangxiu Town, the hardest-hit area.

The call was made using a maritime satellite phone, and the caller was a woman named Meng Jingyao.