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China Hit By Earthquake
Drudge Report ^ | Updated:08:00, Monday May 12, 2008 | Sky News

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.


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KEYWORDS: asia; china; chinaquake; earthquake; eq; quake; sichuan; usgs; wenchuan
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

goodnite...

new headlines are breaking now in the media

I’ll keep posting what I find.


641 posted on 05/12/2008 10:18:53 PM PDT by stlnative
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http://www.tianya.cn/new/publicforum/Content.asp?strItem=funinfo&idArticle=1152803&flag=1&idWriter=0&key=0

here are some pics from survival.

BTW: i come here becos someone(I guess a student) post this bbs on Tianya(very pupular chinese public forum)


642 posted on 05/12/2008 10:19:40 PM PDT by fengcn
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This pic shock me a lot. They lost their child in earthquake.

http://cc3.cdqss.com/attachments/month_0805/20080512_637e81c7b11754b4c423jxuJ0CTsn2i2.jpg


643 posted on 05/12/2008 10:19:41 PM PDT by xiaojj
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To: xiaojj
This is all so shocking and sad.

My prayers go out to all who are suffering from this.

644 posted on 05/12/2008 10:21:53 PM PDT by Allegra (TEHRAN DELENDA EST)
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Can anyone tell me how to post the picture??

Thanks a lot


645 posted on 05/12/2008 10:22:12 PM PDT by communion
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Over 200 buried under collapsed schools
By Li Xinran 2008-5-13

TWO schools collapsed in quake-hit Sichuan Province, burying at least 200 people, Xinhua news agency reported today.

One high school and one vocational school in Hanwang Town, Mianzhu City, which is 30 kilometers away from the temblor’s epicenter in Wenchuan, collapsed in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday.

It was estimated that more than 200 among a total of 1,000 students were buried at the high school. About 30 students were trapped under debris at the vocational school.

Hanwang Town has been nearly wiped out, the report said, citing a reporter at the scene.

By early this morning, 800 soldiers had arrived and began rescue work.

Medical and rescue team members are now clearing the scene and searching for survivors.

A dozen corpses were seen placed on the playground of an elementary school, Xinhua reported.

A grade 12 student that survived the earthquake said his class was divided into two groups and that one group on the fourth floor was buried.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200805/20080513/article_359377.htm


646 posted on 05/12/2008 10:22:49 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: communion

just post the url for the picture, please


647 posted on 05/12/2008 10:24:08 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

Night... Me too...Have to get my kids up for school at 5 am.

Prayers for those affected.

thanks for the info and pics.


648 posted on 05/12/2008 10:24:25 PM PDT by meanie monster
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To: EagleandLiberty; chinaboy; All

Nightline had a report on the China earthquake. I think they said the school was a secondary school, with a number killed, buy a number also rescued. There was a lot of talk about building codes which apparently have been improved in recent years, but not 20 years ago when the building boom began.


649 posted on 05/12/2008 10:24:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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1300 army arrive Wenchuan!!!

Finally...


650 posted on 05/12/2008 10:24:45 PM PDT by Hyyia (Hyyia)
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651 posted on 05/12/2008 10:26:37 PM PDT by communion
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652 posted on 05/12/2008 10:26:38 PM PDT by adcycn
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CU geologist’s ominous warning: future quake in major city could claim 1 million

The death toll in Monday’s earthquake in central China could reach 50,000 to 150,000, largely because it hit close to cities where buildings aren’t quake- proof, a Colorado geologist says.

Roger Bilham, who specializes in global earthquake habits, has been predicting that sooner or later there is going to be a direct hit on a major city that will kill 1 million human beings.

“This wasn’t quite a direct hit - it was about 100 kilometers away” from a population center of 8 million said Bilham, associate director of the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.

~snip~ more at link

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/12/cu-geologists-ominous-warning-future-quake-in-1/


653 posted on 05/12/2008 10:28:08 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Hyyia
Yay!!!

I wish you would let us in to help...

654 posted on 05/12/2008 10:32:05 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: communion
Loose translation:

Qimeng (360327959) 10:07:29 at the scene simply can not read Qimeng (360327959) 10:08:33, the Prime Minister has had 60 Kude not look like a Qimeng (360327959) 10:10:16 just opening the Places in the cave Qimeng (360327959) 10:11:24 this unfortunate weather is still raining, now the front line of soldiers have been killed issued an order to save the rain Qimeng (360327959) 10:11:30 me at the scene Qimeng (360327959) 10:11:56 I am now in Dujiangyan City Qimeng (360327959) 10:13:24 traffic has been paralyzed, and difficult to transport goods into the Qimeng (360327959) 10:13:47 Wenchuan now Not allow us to Qimeng (360327959) 10:15:21 Wenchuan the complete closure of the traffic, the scene in the end I do not know how kind, but the morning the Prime Minister instructed the army no matter what price, the city must Qimeng (360327959) 10:16 : 03 are unlucky in the rainy weather, several aircraft are not landing, paratroopers set to take off the Qimeng (360327959) 10:17:36 aircraft dropping supplies in Wenchuan the Qimeng (360327959) 10:20:06 be pressure in the ruins The more than 300 students now very dangerous, ah, just one of the rescue again a failure, and now the Prime Minister again in the scene of the rescue. Qimeng (360327959) 10:20:47 ah fell down to the Prime Minister, Qimeng (360327959) 10:21:35 photos I was passed in Beijing, not after the audit is not allowed to publish the Qimeng (360327959) 10:22: 21 and several colleagues now opened nine computers, in-news Qimeng (360327959) 10:22:37 QQ this critical time in the real-slow Qimeng (360327959) 10:23:39 commandos also on the The Qimeng (360327959) 10:25:04 If you see the Lao Yezi (referring to Premier Wen Jiabao) look, you soon will cry Qimeng (360327959) 10:26:40 Lao Yezi bleeding in the arm injury, he He dressing to give the medical staff open the Qimeng (360327959) 10:27:09 Good News, a student found a Qimeng (360327959) 10:28:00, the Prime Minister went to the cave-in to help? Qimeng (360327959) 10:28:13 to the Mindanao Rural schools Qimeng (360327959) 10:28:33 dragged out, the doctor in the rescue Qimeng (360327959) 10:28:56 forces of the people is not a lot of Qimeng (360327959 ) 10:29:07 traffic too difficult Qimeng (360327959) 10:29:42 It is not yet certain that this Kan Yangzi is still alive, have put up the oxygen Diaoping Qimeng (360327959) 10:31:06 ah, The collapse of the Qimeng (360327959) 10:31:28 commandos into one of the buried Qimeng (360327959) 10:31:40, and so on, I went to look at the front of Qimeng (360327959) 10:36:24 I came back , Rescue from the Qimeng (360327959) 10:37:16 latest news, Pengzhou 100,000 people trapped in dangerous! ! ! Qimeng (360327959) 10:38:49 due to heavy rain the impact of engineering failure of several bridges, mud-rock flow has occurred near the signs, telephone call is direct-the Prime Minister, the situation is very dangerous! ! ! Qimeng (360327959) 10:39:19 due to the collapse of the bridge, Pengzhou City Beidu 100,000 people in the mountains, relief personnel and supplies can not be imported. There have been signs of landslides Qimeng (360327959) 10:41:11 Prime Minister phone, screaming, I do not care how you like, as long as I am this 100,000 people out of danger, this is an order. He threw the phone Qimeng (360327959) 10:41:33 Lao Yezi the first time to see such a formidable Qimeng (360327959) 10:41:54 Wenchuan now not to notice, it is estimated that the situation is not very good Qimeng (360327959) 10: 42:16 I am now in the communications tent Qimeng (360327959) 10:43:54 Wenchuan the latest news, the rain started small, has dropped to airdrop supplies, airborne airport check-in outside the Qimeng (360327959) 10:45:19 Now all the foreign reporters are concerned about so-called China's most elite special forces first public appearance Qimeng (360327959) 10:46:50 Prime Minister and boarding military leaders now speak Qimeng (360327959) 10:47 : 41 Prime Minister said, I will sentence the people to support you in your own Kanzhao Ban. Qimeng (360327959) 11:11:00 everyone, I am now in military helicopters, the first sitting of this aircraft, very nervous. Qimeng (360327959) 11:12:51 I now in the helicopter, estimated to even one hour after the environmental Qimeng (360327959) 11:34:40 latest news, the Yingxiuwan Wenchuan, Xuan mouth, in three towns in Wolong Communications signal very weak, so far can not be linked. Nearly three towns estimated more than 20,000 people were trapped, and aftershocks continued, rolling heavy rain, the situation is very grim, because of poor visibility, unable to determine accurately the situation. The General Staff orders, when the airborne troops to Da Wenchuan over, if the conditions do not allow, at all costs forced parachuting! Qimeng (360327959) 11:36:38 no aircraft to enter the minefield, I have to shut down, and so will you chat.

655 posted on 05/12/2008 10:32:09 PM PDT by Allegra (TEHRAN DELENDA EST)
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To: Allegra

My hero! Thanks. I was about to tease the poster but this isn’t the time or place.


656 posted on 05/12/2008 10:34:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Allegra

No...that’s not translation...


657 posted on 05/12/2008 10:35:42 PM PDT by Hyyia (Hyyia)
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To: Billthedrill
I snagged it off of Google Translator. I use it overseas for quick written translations when I can't find a linguist right away.

The only phrase in Chinese I remember how to say from my visit there on business in 2001 is "Tsai lai eeping pidjio." (I would like another beer.") ;-)

658 posted on 05/12/2008 10:36:57 PM PDT by Allegra (TEHRAN DELENDA EST)
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To: Hyyia

That’s how Google is reading it. I don’t read Chinese.


659 posted on 05/12/2008 10:38:07 PM PDT by Allegra (TEHRAN DELENDA EST)
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