In the rescue team command room at the settlement site, Chen Xin was looking at the map and studying how to rebuild the city.
At present, most of the surviving victims have been resettled in two resettlement sites. According to statistics from the local city government, there are currently no more than 200,000 victims in the two resettlement sites.
In this disaster, more than 300,000 people died.
Through the efforts of the rescue team and later supporting airborne troops, approximately 210,000 bodies were collected from the ruins, and a considerable number of them were incomplete and unrecognizable.
In total, there are more than 80,000 corpses buried deep in the collapsed ruins of the city, unable to be contained.
In addition, more than 95% of the city's shelters have been scrapped. Most have completely collapsed, while a small number have partially collapsed. The few remaining shelters have also suffered from cracks, partial damage and other problems, making them no longer usable.
All food and material production in the entire city has been interrupted. Currently, 200,000 disaster victims rely solely on the materials brought by the rescue team to survive. Both consumption and shortages are huge.
If the supply of materials cannot be restored in the short term, it will be difficult to ensure the survival of the remaining 200,000 victims by relying solely on the Ark for transportation.
The city's water supply and power supply have all been cut off. The drinking water in the resettlement site still relies on a water purifier made temporarily by Chen Xin, which is supported by melted snow.
However, this is only the damage done to this city.
This earthquake affected the entire southwestern provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. The extent of the affected area and the large number of people affected were unprecedented in the history of the Yan Kingdom.
Although the disaster situation varies from place to place, and Chen Xin's city is one of the most severely affected areas, the situation is similar.
Lack of food, clothing, water and food. Although the state has actively organized rescue operations, these are still the primary problems that the disaster-stricken areas need to face.
In addition, the resettlement of disaster victims must also be considered in the disaster area. It is impossible for the victims to continue living in temporary resettlement tents.
Rebuilding cities and building new shelters so that disaster victims can be resettled nearby is of course the most ideal solution.
But rebuilding a city was a huge project even before the disaster. In today's apocalyptic and extremely cold environment, construction is extremely difficult.
What's more, in Chen Xin's view, rebuilding the city on its original site is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and still risky choice.
In areas where huge destructive earthquakes have occurred, subsequent earthquakes will generally occur after a certain number of years. The main reason is that previous earthquakes destroyed the crustal structure of the area and became an energy release point for plate movement.
The movement of plates is non-stop, and the subsequent energy accumulation must be released to a certain extent, and the release process is usually in the form of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.
Although this major earthquake in the southwest is a release of energy, the impact of meteorite impacts and super volcanic eruptions on plates and geological structures will last for a long time, and this destructive major earthquake cannot be the only one.
Therefore, according to Chen Xin's judgment, a more prudent approach is to relocate residents in geologically active areas to areas with more stable geological structures to avoid disasters caused by earthquakes again.
However, this solution is too ideal and requires more manpower and material resources.
When the disaster struck, Yanguo did manage to move the population of several provinces along the southeastern coast to the inland areas. However, this was based on the fact that transportation, communications, production, construction and other aspects of power were not affected, and because of the unprecedented concentration of the disaster, This was done only when there was a life-and-death threat.
There are indeed security risks in the Southwest, but not to the point where the entire population needs to be relocated.
Moreover, the country is now unable to relocate and resettle such a large population from the three southwestern provinces.
So now the only conceivable and feasible way is to build a new shelter nearby.
However, it is easy to say it, and it is easy for the upper lip to touch the lower lip. But how easy is it to really build a new shelter in such an extremely harsh environment?
Today's harsh environment could only be compared to the North and South Poles in the past, and it was even better.
Apart from anything else, at least the North and South Pole can still see sunlight for half of the year, and the temperature will be relatively warm.
But even before the disaster, countries around the world had not built any large-scale buildings in the North and South Poles, only a few scientific research stations.
Although this is to protect the ecological environment of the North and South Poles and there is no large-scale groundbreaking construction, it is also because humans do not have the necessary conditions for large-scale construction in Antarctica.
Strong winds, frozen soil, and extreme cold are all problems that restrict construction.
Even if Chen Xin could replace the construction machinery with Titans and greatly improve the construction efficiency, it would still be difficult to rebuild a city.
"Tear down all the building remains in the city and create a piece of land for rebuilding the city..." Chen Xin looked at the map and was having a headache on how to rebuild the city and the shelter.
Technically speaking, it is not difficult to bulldoze the ruins and level the ground. Just like the work done by Titan before, it only takes a little time to complete.
When rebuilding the city, it is actually not difficult to simply build surface buildings. Using shelters and tents as the basis for permanent transformation, the current two resettlement sites can be transformed into relatively habitable settlements.
The main problem currently plaguing the reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas is the shortage of materials. Without enough building materials, even if construction is possible, houses will not be built.
If you want supplies, you can only wait until the country reopens land transportation lines. Otherwise, if you rely solely on airdrops or Ark transportation, all the transportation capacity will be exhausted just to maintain the lives of the victims in the disaster area.
In addition to the lack of supplies, what made Chen Xin even more hesitant was the fact that the remains of the victims had not been cleared out of the ruins.
This is not a small number, but the remains of more than 100,000 victims.
When the earthquake struck, these 100,000 people were either buried in collapsed shelters and did not escape at all, or they were killed when surface buildings collapsed after escaping, resulting in their bodies being buried in a large number of buildings. Under the rubble, it is almost impossible to dig out.
If the ruins are to be bulldozed, it is inevitable that the remains that have not been cleared out of the ruins will be destroyed.
And after doing so, a new city was built on the remains of these victims.
Whether it was morality or ethics, Chen Xin was hesitant.
Of course the living are more important, but the dead are the 200,000 living relatives and friends. Can they really accept rebuilding the city on the remains of their relatives and friends?
