Quake in China kills 8,500

[D3V]

Nature's fury is more prevelant here in the past two months.

With the most recent quake in China, numbers are now at 8,500 killed, and counting.

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/art.search2.ap.jpg

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/art.rescue.afp.gi.jpg

8,533 reported to be dead after major earthquake rocks central China

900 children also buried when a school building collapsed, 50 bodies found

State news agency says several schools collapsed after 7.8 magnitude quake

Officials expect death toll to continue rising

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/art.faint.ap.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html


[quote]The earthquake was also felt in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, and as far away as Hanoi, Vietnam, and Bangkok, Thailand, according to the Hong Kong-based Mandarin-language channel Phoenix TV.

[D3V]

Here are just a few snippets I've found on youtube from the Quake in China...


*Maybe WW or Randiun can translate for us :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBoCik8RKpc&feature=bz302

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k2eQMukSTPE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HHBSdQt9aLY

[Asamin]

Natural disasters are happening somewhere around 10% more of the time then they were 10 years ago. Does this mean something?

[D3V]

I'd say it's either perfectly inclined with the cycle of Earth and mother nature's natural course of evolution, or mankind is having some sort of negative effect on the world we live in, or atleast how much of an impact, may be the right question.

[Willkillforfood]

What's your source for that, Asamin?

[D3V]

I'd like to know as well, i'm sure NASA/Some weather organization has it posted, though I'm just too lazy to look it up.

[RaiDesu]

'Tis a sorrowful day, where many of my kinsmen have fallen to the wrath of mother nature. For my surviving kinsmen, I wish plentiful jobs from the west, and many a fair tiding.

The tide is ill for myself, alas, I have recently ordered several items from the shores of the homeland.

[D3V]

Uh, okay.

Anyways the toll is now to 12,000 as more aid and effort have been sent over to help out, very vicious quake and sad outcome.

[Willkillforfood]

If it's just 12,000 that's a miracle. It was a shallow and very intense earthquake, which means since it wasn't very deep more energy was dissipated in the surface. The area has a lot of unreinforced masonry (which is very brittle.)

[D3V]

Well 12,000 is the current "count". It's horrible to even say that, just measuring how bad it is by a body count, it's almost like the situation in Iraq. Damn I hope they can find every last survivor, sad day indeed to lose one in a disaster like this.

[Willkillforfood]

Yea. It happened fairly adjacent to a city with a metro. pop. of like 11 million people.

[Wallow]

Disasters are bad...

[Willkillforfood]

True that. I cannot read "Kaneda's Kandy" on the side of your van well enough :(.

[Asamin]

I'd say it's either perfectly inclined with the cycle of Earth and mother nature's natural course of evolution, or mankind is having some sort of negative effect on the world we live in, or atleast how much of an impact, may be the right question.
This is what happened.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh239/nanoak/sc000d54a2.jpg

[Wallow]

I think that jar should say asamin instead of humans...lol

[Elizabeth]

I've heard of that! It's a horrible disaster, I'm actually going to China next year, I'm probably going with Peace Corps or alone.

[NonGayMan]

Rest in peace.

[Jamesadin]

I was just in Chengdu, one of the cities that was hit. It was a great place... and this earthquake is very sad news. I hope the relief efforts of our countries are helping out to the best of their abilities.

[-Spector-]

This shit sucks...

[Willkillforfood]

Yea. The more man's population expands, the more prevelant these great disasters will be. What you don't hear about is the many thousands of chinese coal miners who die annually. Who's crying about them?