In the early hours of September 10th, a coal mine in Heilongjiang Province, China experienced a mine shock, resulting in at least six people being trapped underground.
According to China’s state-owned media CCTV News, Heilongjiang Hegang Mining Co., Ltd. reported that at 1:44 am on September 10th, a mine shock (an earthquake induced by mining activity) occurred at the Fuli Coal Mine, causing damage to certain underground tunnels. Currently, two individuals have been rescued and are being treated with no life-threatening injuries, while six individuals remain trapped underground. Rescue operations are currently underway at the scene.
Local netizens left comments in the video section expressing their experiences, stating, “I felt it, thought it was an earthquake, shook again more noticeably around 5 am,” “The bed shook a couple of times this morning,” “This Hegang Mine has accidents every year.”
According to netizens, a mine shock is a phenomenon of medium to small-scale earthquakes caused by mining activities, classified as non-natural earthquakes, primarily resulting from the disruption of underground stress balance due to mining operations.
Due to the Chinese Communist Party’s tendency to conceal disaster situations, the actual number of individuals trapped cannot be confirmed at this time.