Posted on 09/16/2021 1:55:16 AM PDT by blueplum
(CNN)An earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan left at least three people dead and 60 injured on Thursday, according to state-run media.
Local authorities put the quake at 6.0-magnitude, while the US Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 5.4-magnitude on an 8-point scale....
...At least 1,221 houses have collapsed and more than 3,000 have been severely damaged, according to state-run tabloid the Global Times...
..Luzhou City, home to about five million residents, was among the hard-hit areas...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
So using the 2021 China multiplier number....the number dead (3) is in reality 3,333.
china put out an hour-long propaganda ‘live disaster’ video that shows little to no damage. Some shots of people with brollies standing in the rain outside tall apt buildings, very vanilla coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTlcymj8RdU
here’s a 35 sec video that starts with shaking in a parking garage that shows the level of shaking going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJyaPVlH1o0
It’s the name of the number four that is a homophone for the Chinese (and Japanese) word for “death”.
Big city (5 million) but it is very close to the really big city (Chongqing) to the northeast. The population of Chongqing is arguably the biggest on the planet depending on where the boundaries of the ‘city’ are drawn.
Something underground destroyed?
Shinderu?
Wish it had hit DC & Liberal parts of California
Quick, we need to write a law which makes earthquakes illegal to save lives.
Sure, but in fifteen minutes everything will be back to normal.
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