Wenchuan immigrants to Hengyang

Wang said that the aperture that the citizens saw in the southwest of the city yesterday afternoon was the tail gas produced by Hengyang Air Force during training and exercises, not a precursor to the earthquake.

Further reading: Hengyang misreported the earthquake originally as an air force drill.

The local people were once worried, and hundreds of thousands of residents took to the streets to avoid danger. Some netizens said that they saw the fighters passing by, causing ground vibration.

On the afternoon of February 1 1, many residents in Hengyang, Hunan Province felt the ground shaking and the glass shaking. At night, many local netizens reported seeing strange apertures in the sky. Thousands of people received rumors that an earthquake might happen through telephone, text messages and the Internet. That night, thousands of people slept on the streets. The local government urgently dispelled rumors and stabilized people's hearts.

Yesterday, an official from the Seismological Bureau of Hunan Province said in an interview with this reporter that the earthquake with magnitude above 1.0 was not detected by the Seismic Network of Hunan Province. The Hengyang municipal government informed yesterday that the vibration was caused by a military exercise of a certain air force stationed in Hengheng.

Residents took to the streets to prevent earthquakes.

At 2: 50 pm on February 1 1, a post appeared in Hengyang Post Bar: "There has just been an earthquake in Hengyang!" This post reached 47 pages in one day. The earthquake rumor is the biggest news in Hengyang these two days.

1 1 That night, many netizens posted photos on the Internet, and a strange aperture appeared in the sky.

According to Hengyang Evening News, most villages in Hengyang shook violently that night, and the glass and rolling gates of some houses shook and made a noise. Earthquake rumors broke out through various channels, and people in Hengyang City and surrounding areas flocked to the streets for emergency refuge.