| | China quake: 7,600 dead, death toll to rise
Posted in Chit Chat; BEIJING: Death toll in Monday's earthquake that devastated parts of southwest China's Sichuan province appeared heading towards a massive figure that might surpass 20,000 people.
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12-05-08, 11:20 PM
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Quote: BEIJING: Death toll in Monday's earthquake that devastated parts of southwest China's Sichuan province appeared heading towards a massive figure that might surpass 20,000 people.
Till late on Monday evening, official sources confirmed 7,600 deaths but indicated that the situation was so grim that a lot more people may have lost lives.
The most significant revelation came from the local government in the worst affected Wenchuan County, which said that 80 per cent of the buildings in the County had been destroyed. Wenchuan has a population of 1,11,800.
At least 900 children are feared trapped under a collapsed school building in Dujiangyan County, which is next to Wenchuan.
Details of their fate were still awaited. Dujiangyan, which has a population of 600,000, is believed to be badly affected but there has been very little information about the fate of its residents since Monday evening.
Government agencies involved in relief operations said it was being difficult to rush relief to the affected areas and helicopters have been pressed into service.
This indicated that road communications have been badly affected. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the southwest Sichuan Province at 2.28pm on Monday afternoon and it was followed by several aftershocks till 5pm.
Tremors were also felt in the major cities of Beijing and Shanghai resulting in thousands of people rushing out of their houses and office buildings.
Deaths have also been reported from the neighbouring provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Chongqing, and Yunnan, where more than 100 people have died.
Reports suggested that the quake has spared the major city of Chengdu, which is 146 kilometres away and caused no damage to the world's biggest dam, the Three Gorges Dam, which is several hundred kilometres away.
An executive engineer at the government agency managing the dam said there has been no damage due to the earth quake.
Wenchuan, which lies in the southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, is home to the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's leading research and breeding base for endangered giant pandas.
Another tremor measuring 3.9 jolted Tongzhou District in east Beijing minutes after the quake in Sichuan. But there was no report of any serious injuries due to this quake.
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who rushed to the quake region late on Monday evening, described the situation as a "very severe earthquake disaster."
President Hu Jiantao ordered an "all out" effort to aid people in the earthquake region. "I felt dizzy and wondered if my blood pressure level has suddenly shot up. Then I heard shouts and people began heading for the stairs," a retired government official told TOI in Beijing.
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12-05-08, 11:30 PM
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and earthquakes always come in groups..
So sleep tight.
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13-05-08, 04:17 AM
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A powerful earthquake hit China's Sichuan province on Monday afternoon. Almost 8,700 people are reported dead with every indication that the death toll will rise. The after shocks of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake were felt as far as Beijing and the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
A resident of Chongqing, Wu Ying was stated as saying: "I was so scared, the room I was staying in was shaking."
Communications were disrupted with only a trickle of news coming into Sichuan's capital, Chengdu.
However, reports have suggested that the devastation could be widespread. Houses and buildings have collapsed, trapping hundreds of people. School buildings caved in killing scores of children and communication lines have broken down with most mobile phone towers having collapsed.
The 44 aftershocks that followed saw buildings sway even in Beijing more than 2,000 km away. Tremors were also reported from 10 other provinces including Ningxia, Qiinghai, Gansu and even Tibet, although no reports of casualties have come in.
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13-05-08, 05:58 AM
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 There is a thread on the topic already posted by knotty..
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13-05-08, 08:42 AM
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13-05-08, 09:15 AM
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13-05-08, 09:17 AM
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There is nothing to laugh about. People are dead 
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13-05-08, 09:22 AM
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Death toll is said to be arnd 10k as of now.
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13-05-08, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Agnel  There is nothing to laugh about. People are dead | We are laughing at you 
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13-05-08, 12:04 PM
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7.8 on a richter scale, its huge in magnitude.
they had to evacuate the tallest building in china for fear of security.
there is a lot of damage in interior china and be assure there wont be a single outcry as beijng is hosting an olympics this year.
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