China Hit By Earthquake

Drudge Report ^ | Updated:08:00, Monday May 12, 2008 | Sky News

[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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I am glad we could help each other out. I just posted the story less than a half an hour ago on this same thread.
I glad you found a picture of it.

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Mianzhu: 1,500 confirmed dead and 10,000 people remained buried in rubble.

Dujiangyan: about 900 teenagers were buried under a collapsed three-story school building. - At a second school in Dujiangyan, fewer than 100 of 420 students survived, Xinhua reported.

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.

Woolong: home to more than 100 giant pandas, whose fate is not known - Fifteen missing British tourists were believed in that area at the time of the quake and were out of reach.

Shifang: Where the quake sparked a major chemical leak of liquid ammonia, about 600 people died and as many as 2,300 remained buried, Xinhua said.

Wenchuan: (very top and at middle of map) Roads are cut off and this is the city closest to the Epicenter. 105,000 to 131,000 reported to live here, only 30,000 reported as ok so far. Picture of Wenchuan

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.

Chengdu: Xinhua reported that 60 pandas at another breeding center in Chengdu were safe.

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Beichuan: Just east of the epicenter (Wenchuan), 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county, a more than six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards (meters) high, according to Xinhua. The Beichuan school had more than 2,000 students and teachers in three school buildings. The other two buildings collapsed partially, Xinhua said.
It said up to 7,000 people were killed and 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan.

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Huixian County in Gansu Province

The 40-carriage train, carrying 13 petrol tanks, derailed in Huixian County, Gansu Province, along the Baoji-Chengdu line. The locomotive caught fire first, then the 13 oil tanks buried by rocks were also ablaze, said a spokesman with the Longnan municipal government. The line was closed after the accident.

The train's two drivers were injured and have been sent to hospital. More than 900 people living nearby were evacuated. The train was still burning at 5 a.m. Tuesday and the oil tanks were likely to explode, forcing the withdrawal of fire fighters to six kilometer away.

 

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Tees expert warns on China quake toll
May 13 2008 Evening Gazette

A Teesside expert on earthquakes has warned the death toll in the China quake could reach hundreds of thousands.

~SNIP~

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-breaking-news/2008/05/13/tees-expert-warns-on-china-quake-toll-84229-20901668/

[bd476]

Zhanli, could you or someone please translate the Chinese script writing near the photo above, found at the link you provided. I'm praying that the boy is alive and recovering.

http://cache.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/sport/1/131135.shtml#Bottom

[bd476]

Species8472 wrote: "Sorry. I thought you were on of our new Chinese friends :)"

That's okay. This is a terrible situation over there. Prayers continuing.

[don-o]

[commonguymd]

Jeepers. That is terrible. Prayers to the people of China.

[Tainan]

This is the humanity of China that is rarely seen here on FR. There is a difference between the people of China and the governmental policies of China.

Please pray for these earthquake victims and their families.

[DavFeng]

young girl buried under the school building in Deyang,Sichuan

[DavFeng]

a senior citizen who'd lost his home during the quake

[DavFeng]

After the quake, the Beijing Olympic torch rely continues, I’m sad about it, and I don’t think the people of my homeland should be of any kind of “glad” or something like that, we should concern about the deaths and wounded in the quaked area!

[DavFeng]

a truck turned over after the quake

[Youandi]

So many friend of mine are in Sichuan, and i worried them a lot, someone turn to rescue and someone still cannot be reached.
i like Sichuan, where i lived for 4 years, i stand together with Sichuan People, make the donation is only the way we could do, God save Sichuan, God save China

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787 stranded passengers safely evacuated after SW China quake

www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-13 17:14:07 Print

Special report: Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) — Passengers stranded on the rails after Monday’s strong earthquake in southwest China’s Sichuan Province have begun to head for safe places, according to the Ministry of Railways.

A total of 787 passenger onboard the train K291 from Shanghai to Chengdu have been arranged to evacuate in 20 microbuses at South Guangyuan station by 10 a.m. on Tuesday, said Wang Yongping, spokesman of the Ministry of Railways.

More than 6,000 people on eight passenger trains were originally stranded on the Baoji-Chengdu Railway following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the region.

Trains No. 7403 and No.7404 running between Puji and the provincial capital Chengdu, have managed to move to nearby stations, while other five trains, namely K390 from Chengdu to Fuzhou, T8 from Chengdu to Beijing, T7 from Beijing to Chengdu, K117 from Beijing to Panzhihua and No. 1485 from Taiyuan to Chengdu, were heading for nearby stations.

Wang said the ministry had got in touch with the stranded trains, and passengers were provided with free food, drug and drinking water. They were all emotionally stable at the moment, he said.

About 180 trains, including 31 passenger trains and 149 cargo trains, were stranded on the Baoji-Chengdu Railway, the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and their branch railways linking Chengdu with the rest of the country after the quake caused multiple landslides and collapses along railways near Chengdu.

The ministry also dispatched two trains with more than 2,800 rescue members onboard from Kunming to Chengdu as well as 115 loads of food, drug, oil and tents from Zhengzhou and Wuhan to quake-hit areas, he added.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/13/content_8161735.htm

[commonguymd]

So sad to see people suffer like that. It breaks my heart to see some of these photos.

Prayers to the people of China.

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If anyone starts a daily thread related to this quake... Please ping me

[bd476]

Tainan wrote: "...There is a difference between the people of China and the governmental policies of China.

Please pray for these earthquake victims and their families."

True. My prayers are continuing for all the victims, their families and loved ones affected by this terrible earthquake.

[bd476]

DavFeng wrote: "After the quake, the Beijing Olympic torch rely continues, I'm sad about it, and I don't think the people of my homeland should be of any kind of “glad” or something like that, we should concern about the deaths and wounded in the quaked area!"

DavFeng, I agree. It is surprising to hear that the torch relay would continue now.

The first priority should be rescuing anyone who is still trapped in the rubble. If it takes all of China's emergency responders to do it, then all efforts should be made now. They need to recover the bodies of the dead and properly bury them. From what I've read, the water supply has been affected and that needs to be restored.

Unsafe buildings such as hospitals, schools, homes, fire department buildings, all need to be torn down and rebuilt. Damaged roads, damaged bridges, all need to be restored, earthquake retrofitted before anyone continues with the Olympics celebration.

The Olympics can wait.

[DavFeng]

I can help you with that ,I’m a Chinese
we have no more news about this boy, but I think he’d been saved by now coz seems that he was still having his consciousness, the photo is taken from local TV news
the boy’s in a collapsed school building, with more child killed or buried down there

[DavFeng]

news says that only about 100 out of 420 students was saved in the school