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Thread: Earthquake hit SiChuan Province, China
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[quote=MARRIE,288065]God bless China. Hope Sichuan province would recover and be back to normal life soon. Heard that there are thousands of frogs lining up on the street days before earthquate (animals are much more sensative) just like 3 decades ago, fish jump out of water before a tragic earthquake that took place in TangShan, HeBei Province and collapsed the whole city. WEIRD why there were no report from national Seismological Centre before this disaster. were those seismologists or officers working in Seismological office sleepy? China Is Hit by 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Near Chengdu (Update7) By Aaron Sheldrick and Eugene Tang May 12 (Bloomberg) -- China was hit by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, the nation's strongest in 58 years causing buildings to shake in Beijing, more than 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) away. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed in one county alone, China state media said. The quake struck 90 kilometers west-northwest of the central city of Chengdu at 2:28 p.m. local time, at a depth of 10 kilometers, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A magnitude-6 quake struck the area about 15 minutes later. Chengdu, with 11 million people, is Sichuan's provincial capital, site of China's largest panda reserve and where 40 percent of gas deposits are found. A Sichuan high school building collapsed and may have buried as many as 900 students in a mudslide, Xinhua News Agency said earlier. The agency cited China's Ministry of Civil Affairs as saying at least 107 were confirmed dead. In a separate incident, four students were killed and at least 100 were injured when two schools collapsed in Liangping county of Chongqing municipality, adjacent to Sichuan, state-run Xinhua said. Chongqing is about 350 kilometers from the epicenter and has a population of about 30 million. One person died in Sichuan province. ``It's a big one,'' said Dimtry Storchak, director of the Berkshire, U.K.-based International Seismological Centre. ``It could be a very disastrous earthquake. It depends on how deep, or how shallow it struck, and what the local structures are like,'' Storchak said today in a telephone interview. The death toll may rise, Deng Changwen, a spokesman for the Sichuan provincial seismological bureau, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. Troops and a 180-men rescue team have been sent to Wenchuan, a city of 111,800 people and one of the closest population centers to the quake, Xinhua said. [/quote]
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