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Thread: Earthquake in Chongqing Municipality
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[quote=JABAROOTOO,288106]Fortunately Wenchuan County and surrounding areas, those worst hit are not densely populated but the timing was critical. Between two and two thirty every afternoon students and workers return to classrooms or work after the lunchtime siesta and so the majority of people were inside. However, mid afternoon in early summer is a better time than midnight for something like this to happen. Yesterday here in Chongqing was a beautiful clear, blue sky day bordering on HOT with a clear night and half moon but this morning dawned cool and dull in significant contrast and strangely in keeping with the sombre mood of today's search and recovery work. Adding to the problems is the likely hood of increasing rain in the worst affected areas. These areas are subject to constant landslides which close roads under rather normal circumstances and now that power supply and telecommunications have improved, more reports are coming in of other school building collapses with considerable if not total loss of life. Things are pretty well back to normal here in CQ although a lot of people slept out last night like so many in the Chengdu area. I slept soundly after feeling another minor tremor at midnight but I had a bag packed, ready to run out the door if I should be woken in the night. Prepared as I was, I wonder it there would be time to evacuate if another stronger quake had hit closer to CQ. A building can collapse in less than two minutes and that's not very long. When I returned from my morning classes I spoke to three young girls playing in our garden, asking if they had been school today. Thier reply, implied that teachers had told them that thier school was not safe. Every new and non traditional building in China is made of concrete. These regions are not particularly quake prone so buildings are not necessarily very quake proof either. Often schools are quickly and shoddily constructed but so close to the epicentre there is little chance they would withstand one of this magnitude however well they were built. Interesting about the frogs and no other alert by seismologist. Animals always pick up on these things but their strange behaviour also goes unnoticed. [/quote]
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