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UPDATE!!!

Nice easy map of the general area... (use this map to locate the following listed areas - all are listed on the map - you may even want to bookmark this map)
http://english.dreams-travel.com/chinaguide/china-map/chengdu-map.jpg

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.

Woolong: home to more than 100 giant pandas, whose fate also was 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. 131,000 reported to live here, only 30,000 reported as ok so far.

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

Not on map...

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 deaths were separate from another leveled school in Dujiangyan where 900 students are feared dead.
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 5,000 people were killed and 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan.

- A 40-car freight train derailed in the quake that included 13 gasoline tankers was still burning Tuesday, the agency said, with no word on casualties.