This was a city built to house 50,000...that has 2 MILLION souls living there and a very shallow quake just struck right in the middle of that city. This is going to be worse than any disaster the world has ever seen.
This was a city built to house 50,000...that has 2 MILLION souls living there and a very shallow quake just struck right in the middle of that city. This is going to be worse than any disaster the world has ever seen.
It’s going to be pretty bad; it’s certainly not going to be the worst natural disaster the world has ever seen. Might be the worst or one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere. Deaths are certainly in the thousands, and may be in the tens of thousands.
There have been a variety of Chinese floods that may have killed a million+, and Bangladeshi cyclones killing hundreds of thousands.
This won’t reach the death toll of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, or the 1975 Tangshan earthquake in China.
It’s awesome, truly.
(CNN is covering live- apparently some twitter and facebook messages coming through)