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[quote=JABAROOTOO,291229]I'm hearing some very sad tales from my friends here in CQ.  Very few people have not been affected in some way or another.  Nearly everyone knows someone who perished, was injured or lost property.

We have not heard stories of any casualties amongst visitors at Wolong Panda Reserve at the time of the quake.  However, I have heard than one of the foreign groups, scheduled for a morning visit were rescheduled to the afternoon to allow for some Chinese officials making a formal visit with photo opportunities.  This Official group was on the road at the time of the quake and did not survive the rock slides that closed the roads in so many places.  The foreign tourist where in the reserve and outside at the time of the quake so that none of them were injured, just shocked and cut off from the outside.

Many other visitors from places like Chongqing on self-driving holidays in the area , which included visiting Wolong have also lost their lives as rock slides smothered the roads.

With more than 200 minor tremors in the area each day and at least one around magnitude 5.5-6.0 everyday it is still a very volatile place.
Last Sunday afternoon we felt another major tremor here, more than 300kms away.

With dams and barrier lakes giving some concerns of flooding and the raining season about to begin, this is just the beginning.  There is an urgent need for hundreds of thousands of tents as temporary homes for those who have lost theirs completely or just unsafe to return to.

The County seat of Beichuan will be completely rebuilt in another, safer location.

I hate to sound so negative but .....................these are the awful facts[/quote]

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