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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. ![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0//us/88x31.png)
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