America: Earthquake collapsed coal mine, six missing miners

An earthquake occurred in a coal mine in Utah (western America) that collapsed a tunnel in the mine. More than 200 people participated in the search for six missing miners after the disaster.

According to local authorities, an alarm order was issued at 4 am (local time) after news of six missing miners due to a tunnel in the Genwal mine in Huntington Canyon, a desert and hill area. completely remote mountain, about 180 km from Salt Lake City (Utah state) to the southeast, collapsed in an earthquake. When natural disasters occur, mines are working under a depth of 600-1,000 meters.

Robert Murray, the owner of the mine, confirmed that there were 200 people, not to mention four different rescue teams seeking to reach the position of the victims, now identified, but did not rule out the possibility that they had died. after the tunnel collapsed.

A patrol officer deployed in front of the entrance to the Genwal mine (Photo: TTO)

One of the measures applied by the rescue team is to approach by a nearby corridor. Local power company Rocky Mountain Power has sent a rescue team equipped with many necessary tools to the scene.

The Genwal mine is not far from the center of a magnitude 4 earthquake that occurred in the area at 2:48. However, according to scientists at the University of Utah, the tunnel may collapse itself rather than the earthquake.

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