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Death toll in China earthquake rises to 8,533 [Photos]
Yahoo! AP ^ | 5/12/2008

Posted on 05/12/2008 8:47:42 AM PDT by charles m


A rescuer searches for victims after an earthquake in Chongqing municipality May 12, 2008.


Water and mud flow on a street after an earthquake broke an underground pipe in Chengdu, Sichuan province

CHONGQING, China - Chinese state media says more than 8,500 have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.

The official Xinhua News Agency said that another 10,000 people were believed hurt in one of the province's counties after the 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday.

Nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed about 60 miles from the quake's epicenter. Xinhua reported students also were buried under five other toppled schools.

The earthquake struck in the middle of the afternoon when classrooms and office towers were full.

The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; earthquake; godsgravesglyphs
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To: BenLurkin

That’s nothing. The Chinese earthquake in 1555 killed over 500,000 people. That’s the most deadliest natural disaster ever.


21 posted on 05/12/2008 9:29:26 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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To: trisham
Sure. What happens to looters in China?

They get shot, and then their families are charged for the price of the bullet.

22 posted on 05/12/2008 9:34:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Go Stars!)
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To: r9etb; trisham; Red Badger; BureaucratusMaximus
were this a big city in the U.S., there would probably be looters running rampant in the streets.

the pics kinda got me to thinking about how there are parts of the US that are little better than 3rd-world sh*tholes

In addition to that, isn't it nice to see nurses who take some pride in their appearance?

In fact, those nurses are so attractive that it makes me wonder whether the pictures were staged - they look like they just walked off the set of a 1950's movie or television show in America.

Anyway, the more I see of China, the more I wonder if our future doesn't lie more with them than with any other peoples.

23 posted on 05/12/2008 9:39:26 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

The nurses in China really dress like that. Pride in presentation for EVERYONE. Even the street-sweepers dress cleanly.

Our future does have a strong inter-dependency with China; it’s best if we recognize that now and manage the relationship with our own interests firmly in place. China will be the predominant economic and political force in Asia; ignoring that fact will make the future harder for both countries.

China is rational, the Chinese are - if anything - pragmatic. Russia is completely irrational and the biggest threat we’re going to face over the next few decades. China - with a huge population, economy, and massive border with Russia - will be a natural ally to stabilize and control Russia as it starts to go through wild death throes back into either a complete dictatorship or fracture into hundreds of independent states.


24 posted on 05/12/2008 9:46:31 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: silverleaf

Picture of the collapsed school
25 posted on 05/12/2008 9:54:12 AM PDT by charles m (Ask not what what your country can do for you; ask what you can do to make Michelle Obama proud.)
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To: r9etb
Compare and contrast ... were this a big city in the U.S., there would probably be looters running rampant in the streets. Just saying....

In 1989 we had a pretty good one here in San Francisco. It knocked out power to the whole city and there was a certain amount of death and destruction and confusion.

There was no looting.

26 posted on 05/12/2008 9:59:44 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam
There was no looting

True. And then you have places like New Orleans after Katrina; or New York during a blackout; or Los Angeles following damned near anything....

27 posted on 05/12/2008 10:04:48 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Anyway, the more I see of China, the more I wonder if our future doesn't lie more with them than with any other peoples.

My concern is that in fifty years China will be, as it is now, a somewhat functional dictatorship simultaneously capable of producing great wealth and keeping its people in subjugation, that China will militarily be much more powerful than it is now, and that the Chinese people and leaders will hate us with an intensity that we cannot even imagine.

28 posted on 05/12/2008 10:05:29 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: r9etb
True. And then you have places like New Orleans after Katrina; or New York during a blackout; or Los Angeles following damned near anything....

I think the predominant reasons for those differences are fairly obvious. Do you agree?

29 posted on 05/12/2008 10:07:25 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
China is rational, the Chinese are - if anything - pragmatic.

The Chinese have their rational, pragmatic side. They also have their racist, nationalistic, chauvanistic, xenophobic, and resentful sides as well. They are perfectly capable of being the worst enemy we have ever known. Not yet, but in fifty years maybe.

30 posted on 05/12/2008 10:10:28 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: r9etb
“True. And then you have places like New Orleans after Katrina; or New York during a blackout; or Los Angeles following damned near anything....”

As well as Arkansas. Just a few weeks ago with the dust barley settling from the tornado's they had a problem with looters. I could not believe my ears.

31 posted on 05/12/2008 10:10:33 AM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: rogue yam
I think the predominant reasons for those differences are fairly obvious. Do you agree?

Oh, yes, I quite agree. From the perspective of a San Franciscan, looting would be just too haphazard a way to get just the right accessories to perfect one's interior design.... ;-)

32 posted on 05/12/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

five finger discount Ikea makes for bad Feng Shui.


33 posted on 05/12/2008 10:19:13 AM PDT by cmdjing
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To: r9etb

Fortunately there are still many places here in the US where it's a bad idea to loot.

34 posted on 05/12/2008 10:19:27 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: charles m

Rescuers carry an injured man out from the debris of a collapsed building at Juyuan Middle School




Students read books for the upcoming senior high school entrance exams after an earthquake in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 12, 2008.
35 posted on 05/12/2008 10:26:09 AM PDT by charles m (Ask not what what your country can do for you; ask what you can do to make Michelle Obama proud.)
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To: rogue yam

36 posted on 05/12/2008 10:31:22 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: charles m

Heartbreaking....


37 posted on 05/12/2008 10:31:28 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Great photoshop! Too funny!


38 posted on 05/12/2008 10:40:38 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam
Reading some of the comments from the Obama camp - and a few around FR recently - show we also have our racist, nationalistic, chauvanistic, xenophobic, and resentful side, too...
39 posted on 05/12/2008 10:42:35 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: charles m

the total number estimited by me is at least 60 thousand.
i am a chinese.let me tell you all why this is the truth:
the death toll in BEICHUAN county(70 miles from the epicentre WENCHUAN county) is reaching 8500 now.and it is just one of the nine counties around the epicentre WENCHUAN county which i estimated at least 20 thousand. so ...
pity!


40 posted on 05/12/2008 10:43:41 AM PDT by earthykid
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