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| July 2008 (31.065 Degrees, 103.4902 Degrees) Ming River Bridges |
Drove into Yinchiou Village, which was destroyed by the
earthquake.
After lunch we walked to the
Ming Jing River, where several bridges, a river levee, a tunnel, as well as
many buildings were damaged due to ground shaking, landslides, and a surface rupture. A viaduct on the east side of the river
collapsed due to a surface rupture. A
tunnel going into the mountains east of the river also was damaged by the
offset. A levee on the west side of the
river and several buildings were destroyed by the fault which was estimated to
have a vertical offset of about 1.5 meters.
About 500 meters north of the fault, the Ying Xiu Ming Jiang Bridge, a
T-girder bridge on two-column bents that are supported on pile shafts had some
damage due to a landslide at the east span and so the Sichuan Province Government
has built a Bailey Bridge over the east span to carry vehicles over the
damage. A steel suspension bridge
another 500 yards north of this bridge appears undamaged by the earthquake.
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