Posted on 05/12/2008 12:27:28 AM PDT by 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.
goodnite...
new headlines are breaking now in the media
I’ll keep posting what I find.
here are some pics from survival.
BTW: i come here becos someone(I guess a student) post this bbs on Tianya(very pupular chinese public forum)
This pic shock me a lot. They lost their child in earthquake.
http://cc3.cdqss.com/attachments/month_0805/20080512_637e81c7b11754b4c423jxuJ0CTsn2i2.jpg
My prayers go out to all who are suffering from this.
Can anyone tell me how to post the picture??
Thanks a lot
Over 200 buried under collapsed schools
By Li Xinran 2008-5-13
TWO schools collapsed in quake-hit Sichuan Province, burying at least 200 people, Xinhua news agency reported today.
One high school and one vocational school in Hanwang Town, Mianzhu City, which is 30 kilometers away from the temblor’s epicenter in Wenchuan, collapsed in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday.
It was estimated that more than 200 among a total of 1,000 students were buried at the high school. About 30 students were trapped under debris at the vocational school.
Hanwang Town has been nearly wiped out, the report said, citing a reporter at the scene.
By early this morning, 800 soldiers had arrived and began rescue work.
Medical and rescue team members are now clearing the scene and searching for survivors.
A dozen corpses were seen placed on the playground of an elementary school, Xinhua reported.
A grade 12 student that survived the earthquake said his class was divided into two groups and that one group on the fourth floor was buried.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200805/20080513/article_359377.htm
just post the url for the picture, please
Night... Me too...Have to get my kids up for school at 5 am.
Prayers for those affected.
thanks for the info and pics.
Nightline had a report on the China earthquake. I think they said the school was a secondary school, with a number killed, buy a number also rescued. There was a lot of talk about building codes which apparently have been improved in recent years, but not 20 years ago when the building boom began.
1300 army arrive Wenchuan!!!
Finally...
CU geologist’s ominous warning: future quake in major city could claim 1 million
The death toll in Monday’s earthquake in central China could reach 50,000 to 150,000, largely because it hit close to cities where buildings aren’t quake- proof, a Colorado geologist says.
Roger Bilham, who specializes in global earthquake habits, has been predicting that sooner or later there is going to be a direct hit on a major city that will kill 1 million human beings.
“This wasn’t quite a direct hit - it was about 100 kilometers away” from a population center of 8 million said Bilham, associate director of the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.
~snip~ more at link
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/12/cu-geologists-ominous-warning-future-quake-in-1/
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My hero! Thanks. I was about to tease the poster but this isn’t the time or place.
No...that’s not translation...
The only phrase in Chinese I remember how to say from my visit there on business in 2001 is "Tsai lai eeping pidjio." (I would like another beer.") ;-)
That’s how Google is reading it. I don’t read Chinese.
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