Posted on 05/12/2008 12:27:28 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has hit China's Sichuan province. The tremor was felt across the entire region - shaking buildings in the capital, Beijing, as well as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. US Geological Survey said the quake struck 57 miles north-west of the city of Chengdu at 2.29pm local time (6.28am GMT).
Some 10 million people live in Chengdu.
I’m glad to see so many kind American people here, although that Laz guy scared me a little.
In my impression, most American people are nice and friendly. But I don’t like US government.
Thank you for your praying for the victoms in China.
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Thanks (even if a lot of it is hard on the heart.) I found myself riveted to this picture, praying for no aftershock...
http://english.sina.com/p/1/2008/0516/159316.html
That is beyond words... I try to imagine the thoughts of that young soldier.
Are you allowed to talk politics on the Internet? If so, we have much to discuss.
Thank you for your pictures and posts Dav.
Thank you for those pictures. Prayers for those children and their teachers.
I'm sorry the people have to endure further trauma like this. And it must be very hard for the rescue workers.
Hey, DavFeng - I am a poor one to speak for this group, as I am on FR only infrequently (usually when there is something major going on.) But, nonetheless, I want to say “understood”, “thank you” for helping us understand, and, we hope to hear from you again soon, hopefully in a better time and circumstance.
“The rescuer found a 3 months old baby under her body...a mobilephone message——’Dear baby, if you can survive, remember that I love you’”.
When I read this I burst into tears. As I am writing this I am crying again. Chinese people, remember whatever our leaders say, we are all human beings, and we all love our children. The greatest tragedy of this disaster is that so many Chinese have only one child, and so many schools were destroyed. Perhaps some who have lost a child will be able to love some of the orphans who have survived and make a new family.
A piece of my family history. My husband, now deceased, fought in the Korean War. He would never talk about it. Finally because he suffered PTSD and was alcoholic, he entered therapy. Our oldest son has dark, slightly Asian looks as my husband was 16th American Indian, and I have Mongolian Tartar from my German background. One day in a therapy session my husband burst into tears and cried “I killed someone’s son, I killed someone’s son.” He cried and screamed for more than an hour. He had bayonetted a young Chinese Communist soldier in hand to hand combat. Our 14 year old son reminded him of this terrible experience and his guilt.
I hope this kind of people to people exchange will make it possible that there is never a war between America and China and as the two potentially greatest countries in the world we can work together to make it a more peaceful world with no more wars, ever.
I have just looked at the before and after picture of this school. The contrast is just terrible and horrific.
If this school which looks to be 3 stories high had been build of straw bales, there would have been much less damage. Outside of Washington, DC a Quaker religious group is building a three story school of straw bales. This kind of construction is very wind and earthquake resistant, and even if it collapses, is much lighter than the heavy concrete which is crushing people. Google straw bale home construction, and international straw bale registry to learn more. There are over 500 listed SB houses in America, there are 3 in China. With all that rice straw, China could build many.
thank you everyone ,everybody here
I’m a Chinese
my name is yaoyunhan
now i live in Beijing
I hope everyone can have a new better day
I think I won’t raise our government’s attention as long as I don’t talk radically and stick to the truth.
I don’t like the US government, but I don’t like our government even more. We have much more corruption problems than you do.
I appreciate your democratic system. Democracy and rule of law are what Chinese government need to improve greatly. It’s sad that many of our people don’t think so.
By the way, nice to discuss with you.
Hope my discussion of politics doesn’t seem inappropriate to the subject of this post.
Good. Many of the other threads cover the subject of the quality of government. Check them out and join in if you like. We have some corruption in gov’t now and it seems to be a growing problem. Take a look.
BTTT!
This old world could certainly use a little of that "better day' soon.
This quake is so terrible that all chinese people's heart are broken. Pics and news are broadcasted on tv,radio, and internet every seconds,the more we see,the more we tear.There are much more pics and stories than the ones posted here in this thread. Almost every hospital are full of blood donor even when the blood bank are all filled.Every company and individual are giving donation to save the victims. Happily to know there are also plans being made to take care of the orphans and many people are most willingly to adopt them.
We really appreciate those who showed sympathy which will make us feel better.Like you,Mrs.gleeaikin,you are surely our friend,thank you.
May the peace always last.
I'm not good at architectonics,but I will post your suggest in our forums and find someone to study it.thank you.
Amen! May the peace always last and may God bless and give comfort to those mourning the death of friends and loved ones from this horrific earthquake. The Chinese people are in the hearts and prayers of many, many here in America.
Thank you so much,friend,and thanks to those other good people in America.God bless America,too.
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The most heartbreaking pictures are the little children and the grieving mothers. So sad!
Seems it’s affected so many people there, if you didn’t lose loved ones, you are helping in the rescue efforts, donating money and giving blood. We will continue to pray for you. I heard on the news rescue workers are still hearing cries for help but I fear time will soon run out, so many to save and so little time.
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