[keeper53]

Thank you for your account of this huge earthquake.
Please continue to post, if at all possible.

Prayers lifted for survivors buried under rubble...

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[yangsuli]

Thank you.
But I know little about this disaster either.
What I know is also from the media, the telephone system barely works, and I am still trying to get my family( I am now in Beijing).
According to Xinhua( China's State Media), the death in Beichuan( a county in Sichuan )may reach 3000-5000. I think the situation in Wenchuan would be even more sesious. However, the main road to Wenchuan has been blocked by debris flow.
A wall collapsed in my mother school and two students were killed in Mianyang. Several school's teaching building has also collapsed and more than ten students were killed, not to mention those 900 who are still trapped.
Let's just cross our hands.