It's Secret Agent stuff. You civilians wouldn't understand.
Just be thankful we're out there, protecting Truth, Justice, and the America Way!
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 hope aid and supplies move quickly with God's help, and that He performs many miracles today.
an other quake just happenned, and i get out the building, waited a while, and came back.
i saw a bus carrying wounded people toward haspital, it is really make me fell sorry. hope they are OK.
Juyuan Middle School in Sichuan (3 story building)
A villager said the school had 18 classes, with about 50 students in each class.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23689700-2,00.html
Take Care, Get The Heck Out Of There, If I were in China right now I’d be knee deep in Tsing-Tao
Ha HA, double triple trick on YOU, agent PRC.
God I love espionage.
Well, I suspected you of not being Chinese because there is a lot of double- and triple-tricking going on lately. We even intercepted a few Russian agents posing as Sri-Lankin agents a few minutes ago.
But then you posted THIS: ^_^
... and it was clear you are Chinese.
I mean, look at those eyes!
LMAO
Witnesses: Villagers, cars buried by debris, whole town levelled after quake
CHENGDU, May 13 (Xinhua) — Violent shakes have leveled a remote town, and people and cars have been buried by debris after a major earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in southwest China on Monday, according to eyewitnesses.
A man who works in Chengdu told Xinhua that his hometown in Shazhou Township in the northern border of Sichuan was almost flattened. He had spoken to his father, who is in Shazhou, over the phone.
“We were passing by the Jushui town, and we saw a huge landslide,” a man from Mianzhu City, about 60 kilometers to quake center Wenchuan, told Xinhua over the phone. He was on his way to visit a friend in Anxian county in the northeast Monday afternoon.
“Rocks buried many houses down at the foot of the hill, and some of the vehicles on the road were buried too. I saw the rear of a car and the wheels of another. Several people were crying for help and some were bleeding,” he said.
A nurse at the forestry center in the Aba prefecture asked reporters to take photos of a boy with scratches on his face to help find his relatives. The nurse said his parents were suspected to have died in the quake.
The quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck Sichuan, including the capital Chengdu, around 2:30 p.m. on Monday. The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan, about 159 kilometers northwest of Chengdu.
“Wenchuan is located at a major fault line. This was really big-scale fracture, and the destruction was grave,” said Che Shi, an official with the China Seismological Bureau.
Local authorities said the quakes have left more than 7,651 people dead in Sichuan alone. Water, electricity and transportation were seriously affected in the province. The massive quake is believed to be the deadliest quake to strike China since the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, which claimed 242,000 lives.
By Monday midnight, at least 24,000 troops have arrived by air in the quake-hit zones for rescue operations, and another 10,000 were on the way by rails.
In Dujiangyan city, about 100 kilometers from Wenchuan, some of the residential buildings seemed to have been axed, and refrigerators, television sets and other furniture were left rumbled in the debris.
In Shiyou Road in Dujiangyan, Xinhua reporters saw on Monday afternoon at least four buildings flattened, and people were digging frantically into the wreckages. At least 50 school children were confirmed dead at a school in the city.
Deep into the night, many residents in Chengdu spent the nights in streets, and cars queue at some of the petrol stations, as people fear shortage of petrol.
Rail traffic has been partially resumed and jammed or disrupted mobile communications were returning to normal.
The Sichuan Provincial health department has sent 24 medical teams to Wenchuan, Mianzhu and Shifang, worse hit than capital Chengdu. More than 100 helicopters were sent to Mianyang, Deyang and Dujiangyan to transport the injured.
The Ministry of Health, the neighboring municipality Chongqing and the army have also dispatched medical workers to Sichuan.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/13/content_8155464.htm
Are we in Operation:Panda Hug mode now? You know where we lull them into a false sense of security with our sweet and sour tactics then blammo. Doh I just revealed our super secrets!
How many states does that junction cover?
Operation Panda Hug is in effect. Be ready for Operation Great Wall Fall.
Shush, you. I am trying to confuse them. Then, when they are all disoriented, we release the mountain lions.
yes I know,some friends of me were buried in the ruins,because the heavy rainfall ,I cann’t receive any information too,so i am praying for all the children.
please forgive me for my ignorance.(AND MY POOR ENGLISH)
According to the information form my friends, there are Two junior high school were collapsed,and about 900children were buried in the ruins.
I just read through the last 100 or so posts looking for the most up to date information about the earthquake. I am especially looking for recent info about all the schools involved.
That said, what the heck is going on here? Is this even FR? Very few of the posts I read addressed the quake topic. Quite a few new folks here, as well.
Would someone please update about the latest information from China, and also why the heck this thread is discussing?
FReegards.
“Children Killed In China Earthquake”
Sad to hear but has anyone ever heard of an earthquake anywhere that ONLY killed adults?
wow,are you?the man in the picture,so handsome and funny you are.
It's Secret Agent stuff. You civilians wouldn't understand.
Just be thankful we're out there, protecting Truth, Justice, and the America Way!
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