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Large 7.8 Earthquake Hits China
« on: May 12, 2008, 10:37:15 AM »

Large 7.8 Earthquake Hits China;
Thousands Feared Dead 
by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media
 
An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people are thought to have died in a powerful earthquake in just one county of southwestern China. The 7.8 magnitude quake was centered on Sichuan province and flattened buildings in some of the more densely populated regions of the country.
 

China's state-run Xinhua news agency is reporting that 80% of building in Sichuan's Beichuan county have collapsed. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called it a 'major disaster' and urged calm. Xinhua reports that up to 900 students are feared buried after a high school collapsed in Dujiangyan, a city with a population of some 600,000 people. At least four children are confirmed dead there, and a local official said 'rows of houses' had also been demolished.

 
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Death Toll In China Earthquake Up To Nearly 9,000
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 11:09:17 AM »

 Shocked  *Another big earthquake in another part of the globe.

From Associated Press via Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake

Death toll in China earthquake up to nearly 9,000 By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
One of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China on Monday, killing nearly 9,000 people, trapping about 900 students under the rubble of their school and causing a toxic chemical leak, state media reported.

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated a hilly region of small cities and towns in Sichuan and nearby provinces. The official Xinhua News Agency said 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone and dozens of other deaths were reported in surrounding areas.

Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the quake, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply.

State media said a chemical plant in Shifang city had cratered, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia from the site.

The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand.

The quake posed a challenge to a government already grappling with discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Beijing Olympics this August.

It hit about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu in the middle of the afternoon when classrooms and office towers were full. There were several smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

The temblor struck hilly country leading up to the Tibetan highlands, toppling buildings in small cities and towns in the largely rural area. About 1,200 pandas — 80 percent of the surviving wild population in China — live in several mountainous areas of Sichuan.

The earthquake, China's deadliest since 1976, occurred in an area with numerous fault lines that have triggered destructive temblor before. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Diexi, Sichuan that hit on August 25, 1933 killed more than 9,300 people.

Xinhua said 50 bodies had been pulled from the debris of the school building in Juyuan town but did not say if the children were alive. Xinhua reported students also were buried under five other toppled schools in Deyang city.

Xinhua said its reporters saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building in Juyuan "while others were crying out for help."

Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."

Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Other photos posted on the Internet and found on the Chinese search engine Baidu showed arms and a torso sticking out of the rubble of the school as dozens of people worked to free them, using their hands to move concrete slabs.

Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system. The quake affected telephone and power networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.

"In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service," said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.

Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.

"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.

The road to Wenchuan from Chendu was cut off by landslides, state media said, slowing the rescue efforts.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.

Li Jiulin, a top engineer on the 91,000-seat National Stadium — known as the Bird's Nest and the jewel of the Olympics — was conducting an inspection at the venue when the quake occurred. He told reporters the building was designed to withstand a 8.0 quake.

"The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake," said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee. "We considered earthquakes when

Skyscrapers swayed in Shanghai and in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.

The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.

China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.

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Re: Death Toll In China Earthquake Up To Nearly 9,000
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 07:57:31 AM »

The Chinese government has been using weather-modification machines to experiment on their people. Do you suspect that government caused that earthquake? Keep in mind that they've been caught making underground bases & nukes, lately.
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Re: Death Toll In China Earthquake Up To Nearly 9,000
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 11:11:29 AM »

I don't think the Chinese government was behind the quake. Check out the natural disasters thread on this site. The same thing is happening here in America on a smaller scale.

I have no idea what's triggering these quakes, and neither do scientists. Personally, I think this is part of the whole end times scenario portrayed in the Bible.
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Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 11:16:49 AM »

 Sad  This is a good example of the downside of overpopulation.

From Associated Press via Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake

Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000 By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer

The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, and 18,645 were still buried in debris in the city of Mianyang, near the epicenter of Monday's massive, 7.9-magnitude quake.

The Sichuan Daily newspaper reported on its Web site that more than 26,000 people were injured in Mianyang.

The numbers of casualties was expected to rise due to the remoteness of the areas affected by the quake and difficulty in finding buried victims.

There was little prospect that many survivors would be found under the rubble. Only 58 people were extricated from demolished buildings across the quake area so far, China Seismological Bureau spokesman Zhang Hongwei told Xinhua. In one county, 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed.

Rain was impeding efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a rescue mission to the epicenter due to heavy storms, Xinhua reported.

More than two dozen British and American tourists who were thought to be panda-watching in the area also remained missing.

Officials urged the public not to abandon hope.

"Survivors can hold on for some time. Now it's not time to give up," Wang Zhenyao, disaster relief division director at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, told reporters in Beijing.

Premier Wen Jiabao, who rushed to the area to oversee rescue efforts, said a push was on to clear roads and restore electricity as soon as possible. His visit to the disaster scene was prominently featured on state TV, a gesture meant to reassure people that the ruling party was doing all it could.

"We will save the people," Wen said through a bullhorn to survivors as he toured the disaster scene, in footage shown on CCTV. "As long as the people are there, factories can be built into even better ones, and so can the towns and counties."

State media said rescue workers had reached the epicenter in Wenchuan county — where the number of casualties was still unknown. The quake was centered just north of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu in central China, tearing into urban areas and mountain villages.

Earthquake rescue experts in orange jumpsuits extricated bloody survivors on stretchers from demolished buildings.

Some 20,000 soldiers and police arrived in the disaster area with 30,000 more on the way by plane, train, trucks and even on foot, the Defense Ministry told Xinhua.

Aftershocks rattled the region for a second day, sending people running into the streets in Chengdu. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the shocks between magnitude 4 and 6, some of the strongest since Monday's quake.

Zhou Chun, a 70-year-old retired mechanic, was leaving Dujiangyan with a soiled light blue blanket draped over his shoulders.

"My wife died in the quake. My house was destroyed," he said. "I am going to Chengdu, but I don't know where I'll live."

Zhou and other survivors were pulling luggage and clutching plastic bags of food amid a steady drizzle and the constant wall of ambulances.

Just east of the epicenter, 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county — a six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards high, according to Xinhua. Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan alone.

At another leveled school in Dujiangyan, 900 students were feared dead. As bodies of teenagers were carried out on doors used as makeshift stretchers, relatives lit incense and candles and also set off fireworks to ward away evil spirits.

Elsewhere in Gansu province, a 40-car freight train derailed in the quake that included 13 gasoline tankers was still burning Tuesday, Xinhua said.

Gasoline lines grew in Chengdu and grocery stores shelves were almost empty. The Ministry of Health issued an appeal for blood donations to help the quake victims.

Fifteen missing British tourists were believed to have been in the area at the time of the quake and were "out of reach," Xinhua reported.

They were likely visiting the Wolong Nature Reserve, home to more than 100 giant pandas, whose fate also was not known, Xinhua said, adding that 60 pandas at another breeding center in Chengdu were safe.

Another group of 12 Americans also on panda-watching tour sponsored by the U.S. office of the World Wildlife Fund remained out of contact Tuesday, said Tan Rui, WWF communications officer in China.

Two Chinese-Americans and a Thai tourist also were missing in Sichuan province, the agency said, citing tourism officials.

Expressions of sympathy and offers of help poured in from the United States, Japan and the European Union, among others.

The Dalai Lama, who has been vilified by Chinese authorities who blame him for recent unrest in Tibet, offered prayers for the victims. The epicenter is just south of some Tibetan mountain areas that saw anti-government protests earlier this year.

Beijing Games organizers said the Olympic torch relay will continue as planned through the quake-affected area next month.

The Chinese government said it would welcome outside aid, and Russia was sending a plane with rescuers and supplies, the country's Interfax news agency reported.

But Wang, the disaster relief official, said international aid workers would not be allowed to travel to the affected area.

"We welcome funds and supplies; we can't accommodate personnel at this point," he said.

China's Ministry of Finance said it had allocated $123 million in aid for quake-hit areas.

The quake was China's deadliest since 1976, when 240,000 people were killed in the city of Tangshan, near Beijing in 1976. Financial analysts said the quake would have only a limited impact on the country's booming economy.

Associated Press writers Christopher Bodeen in Juyuan and Audra Ang in Chengdu contributed to this report.

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Re: Death Toll In China Earthquake Up To Nearly 9,000
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2008, 08:30:55 AM »

Thanks for sharing your thoughts & those articles. I'll visit the "natural disasters section" of this website, like you suggested.
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China quake toll 'to top 50,000'
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2008, 07:08:11 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7402460.stm

China quake toll 'to top 50,000'


The government has asked people to donate equipment to help rescuers

More than 50,000 people may have died in the earthquake that devastated parts of China on Monday, state media say.

The warning came after the government confirmed the death toll had risen to 19,500, as rescue efforts continue to search for thousands still trapped.

About 10 million people across Sichuan province have been directly affected by the 7.9 quake, Chinese media said.

Chinese authorities said 60,000 quake victims had been rescued and that all affected areas had now been reached.

The country is sending 30,000 extra troops to Sichuan to help the 50,000 already involved in rescue efforts.

Some soldiers parachuted into the remotest areas, and essential supplies have been dropped from aircraft.


Desperate search

Beijing says it will accept foreign aid and has agreed to help from rescue teams from Japan and its rival Taiwan.

Rescue teams pull woman from rubble of collapsed building

Correspondents say the death toll, which rose from 14,866 on Wednesday, is expected to rise further as rescue workers dig more victims out of collapsed buildings.

People are still being found alive - an 11-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of a school in Yingxiu 68 hours after it was destroyed.

The BBC's Michael Bristow in Hanwang says rescuers and relatives continue the desperate search for survivors as hope fades.

Amid the remains of Dongqi Middle School are strewn poignant reminders - textbooks, satchels, a blackboard - of the pupils entombed beneath the rubble, he says.

He saw the agonising wait end for one of many distraught mothers waiting outside the school - she collapsed in tears after identifying the body of her son.

Basic equipment needed

At Juyuan Middle School, near Dujiangyan about 50km (32 miles) from the epicentre, other parents were trying to reach 900 children still trapped in the rubble.

"It's not that we don't trust the rescuers," local resident Deng Yuehong told Associated Press Television on Thursday.

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"They have done a lot of work to search for survivors but they couldn't search all the places in such a large area here and there may be some places that they ignored."

The Chinese government has appealed for basic equipment to help in the rescue operation.

It said hammers, cranes, shovels and rubber boats were urgently needed.

The health ministry says there will also be an increasing demand for medicines and sophisticated medical equipment as survivors are treated for bone fractures, crushed internal organs and kidney failure.

More than 10,000 medical workers, police and volunteers have been sent to Beichuan County, one of the hardest-hit areas in Sichuan province, where up to 5,000 are thought to have died.

Destroyed

But there were suggestions that some of those trying to help bring relief were actually hindering the rescue effort, blocking roads to the worst-hit areas.

"Passionate but inexperienced volunteers have brought little food and their vehicles are blocking roads," the Chengdu chapter of the Young Communist League said in a statement read out on local TV.

RECENT CHINA QUAKES
March, 2008: 7.2 quake in Xinjiang - damage limited
February 2003: 6.8 quake in Xinjiang - at least 94 dead, 200 hurt
January 1998: 6.2 quake in rural Hebei - at least 47 dead, 2,000 hurt
April 1997: 6.6 quake hits Xinjiang - 9 dead, 60 hurt
January 1997: 6.4 quake in Xinjiang - 50 dead, 40 hurt

Meanwhile 17 people were disciplined for allegedly spreading "malicious rumours" about the earthquake, two of whom were put in custody, AFP news agency quoted state media as saying.

Deputy Health Minister Gao Qiang says more than 64,040 people have been treated since Monday's earthquake - 12,587 of them are seriously injured, Xinhua reports.

Officials say about 10 million people have been affected by the quake. Many are in refugee camps, without proper shelter, food or clean water.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has issued an emergency appeal for medical help, food, water and tents.

Gu Qinghui, a member of the Red Cross assessment team told AP television: "I just came back from Beichuan County this morning, basically the whole county has been destroyed, there is no Beichuan County anymore.

"No-one knows what has happened in particular areas, in the villages. I am sure that the numbers [death toll] will just go up continuing day by day."
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China Earthquake: Mass Graves For The Dead, 5 Million Homeless
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2008, 03:08:13 PM »

From The Times Online (UK):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3949625.ece?print=yes&randnum=1211056724399

China earthquake: mass graves for the dead, 5 million homeless
Jane Macartney and Sophie Yu in Libing village

At first the gash of freshly turned earth looks like one of the hundreds of landslides triggered by China's massive earthquake. But the incense sticks and half-burnt candles along the road hint at a hidden purpose.

The scar on the hillside has become a mass grave for the victims of the disaster. A line of young soldiers, their faces covered by blue masks against the stench of decomposing bodies, stand guard. More troops, their uniforms protected by blue plastic coats, squat at the foot of the slope, waiting for the next grim delivery.

“The authorities asked us to bury them quickly because they have been dead for several days. There is no time to wait. It's already been quite a long time and now the weather is starting to get warmer,” an official said.

A digger had be2en brought in to cut a path up the hill and carve out three trenches, each about 50 metres (160ft) long and more than 1.5 metres deep. One trench had already been filled.

Officials refused to say how many bodies had been buried or how many they expected to receive. “How many will be buried here we don't know yet,” one said. They hope to ensure the health of the living while respecting the dead.

The site chosen for the grave is a disused lime kiln on the edge of Libin village. It stands at the foot of the line of jagged hills in which tens of thousands have died around the epicentre of the tremor that shook China on Monday. Yesterday the offical toll was raised to 22,069. A further 14,000 were missing in Sichuan province, which bore the brunt of the quake.

An army officer explained that the soldiers' task was to line the grave with lime and then lay in the bodies. More lime was then thrown over and it was sprayed with disinfectant. But the officer hoped that it would not be an anonymous grave and that one day the bodies could be claimed by relatives - if any have survived.

A photograph was taken of each body. Hair and blood samples were recorded to enable DNA identification later. Mortuaries and hospitals in the area are already overwhelmed. In some areas there is insufficient electricity to provide power to keep the bodies. There is no option but a swift burial, with as much dignity as possible, in a land plunged into grief.

A doctor speaking on the special radio channel devoted to the disaster explained the need to dispose of the bodies as quickly as possible. The site should be well away from water sources, and bodies should be disinfected and buried with lime to prevent the spread of disease.

The soldiers working at the mass grave, a handful from the more than 130,000 People's Liberation Army troops deployed, were nervous.

They were under orders to keep away anyone trying to pry as the bodies were brought in. One young man who had been deployed from the air force in the central city of Wuhan, said: “It's dangerous here. And we are very busy. No one can come in.”

A young farmer working nearby shrugged when asked if he was afraid to have such a large grave on a hillside so close to his home. “What is the point of being frightened? They have to be buried somewhere after all, and there are so many of them.”

Thousands more bodies are believed to be still lying entombed in the ruins of their homes and schools, offices and factories. But amid the tragedy there are still glimmers of hope.

Exactly 100 hours after the massive earthquake at 2.28pm on Monday, cheering soldiers pulled a survivor from the wreckage of a fertiliser plant in Yunhua.

Liu Deyun should not even have been in the Yinfeng Fertiliser Plant when the earthquake struck: the 50-year-old driver had been due to make just a quick delivery. But when the building crumpled he was chatting in the games room.

His incredible rescue, witnessed by The Times, began when an army medical team picking through the ruins on Thursday afternoon heard sounds of life. To their amazement, they were able to speak to the trapped driver.

His daughter, Liu Yuanyuan, had gone to search for him a day earlier but was told not to bother and to go home. She returned when she heard that survivors had been found.

“I talked to my father. I called out: 'Daddy' and he wept and said: 'I want water'. I told him not to talk and to preserve his strength for the rescue. He said that he could not move at all.”

His body was pinned down by such huge concrete slabs that doctors had to amputate a part of one leg to free him.

A military doctor, Zhao Hongxiu, said: “We discussed with him that we would have to operate. He agreed that the most important thing was to save his life.” Workers at the plant said they feared that more than 200 people were buried in the rubble. Soldiers sprayed disinfectant over the debris to cover the stench of rotting bodies.

Even as soldiers cheered at the rescue of Mr Liu, rescue teams were burrowing into the other side of the building. Three men who had been playing mahjong together were still alive.

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