The water table was tapped. Interesting.
Right - that is discussed in that pdf article also. I’d guess the liquified surface sank, pushing water out...
Elsewhere I’ve read that supposedly one town just sank out of sight - sort of an on land Atlantis!
Knowing both country well enough to be so sad that so many things are not as it truly is...
Americans are very nice people, I love this country and people here. But keep in mind, last 50 years, Chinese government tried its best to brain wash Chinese people to hate Americans.
In China, all internet content are filtered (thanks to Goolge, Yahoo, MSN and Cosco, their greedy have helped the Chinese government tremendously).
Most of Chinese's perception is that Americans are evil and they hate Chinese so much.
Sad.
About kids killed in this earthquake. Why?
anyone in China knows the government is so corrupted, that they use money to build luxury office but 70% of Chinese families could hardly afford their kids to get proper education. The school was built with the miniume fund and it is not hard to realize where the money went.
This is why almost all school collapsed during this disaster, but you don't see many government buildings damaged.
Also many many resident buildings collapsed, only because it is in the afternoon, a lot of people lost their home but they were at work or on street.
God help we know almost nothing about China. Even Chinese in mainland are so brain washed, reading their forum make you feel so sad...