Heavy fog engulfed China's capital city of Beijing and the city of Dezhou in east China's Shandong Province between Friday and Saturday, with visibility even dropping to less than 50 meters in some areas.
From Friday night to Saturday morning, Beijing experienced dense fog. Visibility was reduced to less than one kilometer, with some areas even being below 500 meters.
The Beijing Meteorological Observatory issued a yellow alert for heavy fog on Friday afternoon. The fog prolonged in most areas of the capital city on Saturday morning, according to the observatory.
Due to the thick fog, sections of expressways in Beijing such as Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Tianjin, and Beijing-Harbin were closed.
The observatory forecasts scattered light rain from Saturday afternoon to the evening, with continued poor visibility.
At 05:30 on Saturday, the Shandong Provincial Meteorological Observatory issued an orange alert for heavy fog, with Lingcheng District and Pingyuan County in Dezhou experiencing visibility of less than 200 meters, with some areas even having visibility below 50 meters.
According to the expressway traffic police department of Dezhou, temporary traffic control measures were implemented at toll stations of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and the Binzhou-Dezhou Expressway. As of 10:00 on Saturday morning, the traffic control measures on the affected sections had been lifted.
Dense fog envelops Beijing, Dezhou with poor visibility
Dense fog envelops Beijing, Dezhou with poor visibility
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Dingri County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning, killing 126 people and injuring 188 others, according to figures released at 19:00 on Tuesday.
The earthquake hit Dingri County in the city of Xigaze at 09:05 on Tuesday, with the epicenter located in the county's Tsogo Township.
Rescue forces from different emergency services have rescued 407 trapped people, set up 14 relocation and resettlement sites, and relocated and resettled more than 30,400 people affected by the disaster.
Municipal-level hospitals in the region are currently treating 28 critically injured patients.
Twenty four medical rescue teams with 568 people and 106 ambulances were dispatched to the region to carry out transfer and treatment work, with all those requiring treatment admitted to hospital.
More than 5,800 pieces of relief supplies, including cotton tents, cotton clothes and quilts, urgently allocated by the National Disaster Reduction Commission, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration arrived at the quake-stricken area on Tuesday night, with 16,000 more pieces of relief supplies expected to be delivered on Wednesday.
More than 170,000 pieces of urgently needed supplies including tents, beds, quilts, blankets, warm clothing, heating equipment, emergency lightning, and food and water were also urgently dispatched to the affected area.
The region's emergency command center on Tuesday also raised the earthquake emergency response to level I, the highest level.
Death toll rises to 126 in 6.8-magnitude Xizang quake
