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 from Shanghai. Here are some pics from a Chinese forum.
Give the link and we’ll post it for you.
DishNetwork Channel 265
road which connect WenChang city and YingXiu city
if landslide comes
too difficult
[img]http://bbs.cd1886.com/attachments/forumid_36/20070321_e09b679ae1f2b1325695xa8jRX8wrCnx.jpg[/img]
This is some of the equipment that trained rescuers could use when they are able to get to the location.
the death toll is keeping rising....
one of my friend is in Sichuan-Chengdu..he told me it’s still shaking last night....
I hope he will be all right....
paryers..
em..I’m sorry for my poor English...
you could use html code to post the img.
Paratroop stops action for heavy rainstorms in quake-hit county
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6409688.html
other reports are saying...
A team of 1,300 army medics and soldiers has reached the area at the epicenter of China’s earthquake, the first sizeable relief force to get there, state media reported. The team immediately began searching for survivors and treating the injured in Wenchuan county after being forced to hike in overland due to massive damage to roads in the region, Xinhua news agency reported. The team arrived nearly 24 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck Wenchuan, leaving tens of thousands of people dead or missing in Sichuan and neighboring provinces.
I feel very helpless having a truck full of the tools you so desperately need and being too far away to help.
Zipingpu Hydropower plant stopped by quake
According to the Sichuan provincial government on Tuesday morning, the Wenchuan earthquake has caused severe cracks in the dam of the Zipingpu Hydropower Station. The plant and associated buildings have collapsed, and some are partly sunk. The whole installation is out of commission.
Located at the junction of Dujiangyan City and Wenchuan County on the upper Minjiang River, the Zipingpu Hydropower Plant was one of the first 10 landmark projects of the Western Development plan. It is also the principal project in the province’s 10th five-year plan. The station was brought into service in 2006.
At 2:28 p.m. on Monday an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale pounded Wenchuan County in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, Sichuan Province, leveling some 500,000 homes in the affected areas and leaving at least 9,219 people dead in the eight affected provinces, the Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed.
(China.org.cn May 13, 2008)
http://www.china.org.cn/china/wenchuan_earthquake/2008-05/13/content_15201601.htm
Villagers evacuated from quake-devastated Beichuan
By Li Xinran 2008-5-13
PEOPLE were evacuated from Beichuan County in Sichuan Province today after rescue workers restored transport links.
From 8:30am, roads were cleared in the county and residents were moved to safer areas.
Many were covered in dust and some were injured in the 7.8-magnitude quake that occurred at 2:28pm yesterday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Armed police soldiers and medical workers escorted the seriously injured out of town via ambulances from Chengdu, Sichuan’s provincial capital, as well as Mianyang City.
Lying in a deep valley with mountains as high as 1,000 meters, Beichuan was linked with the outside world by only one highway across a mountain. The earthquake cut the highway into pieces.
Most of the evacuees were distraught because their relatives and friends may still be buried under the ruble of collapsed buildings.
The temblor has killed at least 9,219 people in Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a release issued at 7am.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200805/20080513/article_359399.htm
6.1-magnitude aftershock rocks quake-hit China county
May 13, 2008, 8:25 GMT
Beijing - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale shook Wenchuan county in south-western China’s Sichuan province on Tuesday afternoon, just 25 hours after a 7.8-magnitude quake killed at least 10,000 people and buried tens of thousands of others in Sichuan.
The epicentre of Tuesday’s quake, which struck at 3:07 pm (0707 GMT) was in almost the same location as Monday’s tremor, the State Seismological Bureau reported.
It followed at least 1,950 other aftershocks and could be felt strongly in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, state media said.
The new quake was likely to further hamper efforts to reach up to 60,000 people who were still unaccounted for and out of contact with authorities in Wenchuan.
The situation is much worse than I thought.
Tens of southands are suffering. I can not help being crying.
However, we are trying our best. My school start raising money in the midnight of yesterday. The soldiers are trying to get there at any cost ( by helicopter, by boat, or even on foot. all of these ways extremely dangerous).
I appreciate your concerns and thank you all for the help as a Chinese student. Let’s pray for those who are killed or injuried.
Species8472, I'm an American, living in the United States. I know what you mean, though. I'm praying that the rescue teams in China have access to this type of equipment.
I copied those photos of rescue equipment from an Emergency Rescue conference which was held in Indianapolis, Indiana earlier this year. Last year I attended a rescue demonstration where firemen demonstrated one of the lifts. When it was deflated, it looked like a simple rubber mat. When inflated, it was capable of lifting many tons, enough for a rescue in a collapsed building.
They could in theory be lifted and dropped in a net held by 6 really big whirlies.
I am from China,I have been moved by all the words you posted.Thank you all.thank you. Fell warm
i just couldn’t concentrate in my work today, while kept a close eye to the status of the salvage...
my sympathies ran through and everytime i saw the pictures of the suffering i can’t help sobbing
hope the ultimate result uncovered will not be so serious as previousely expected. pray for the suffered, God bless.
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