BEIJING (AP) — Rescue teams headed to China's southwestern Sichuan province after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed 22 people and injured hundreds, local authorities said Sunday. Saturday's quake killed 17 people in Sichuan and five others in the neighboring province of Yunnan, the China Earthquake Administration said in a statement posted on its Web site. The official Xinhua News Agency put the death toll at 25 and said it was not known how many people were buried in the rubble. Another 361 people were injured by the earthquake that hit 31 miles southeast of Panzhihua city in the southwestern corner of Sichuan late Saturday afternoon, the administration said. Nearly 400 houses were destroyed in Panzhihua while another 1,000 homes collapsed in the neighboring farming town of Liangshan, the statement said. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBr_dOzJ9Pnc_U9gSgtTgE-cR-KwD92T4DFO0
Man.. is Sichaun built on a major fault line or something? I haven't heard about earthquakes happening there before that main one, and now there has been another... RIP for the people who lost their lives
u can't just "move" cos u feel like it... in other countries u can do that.. just doesn't work like that here unfortunately =(
another earthquake? lol, maybe its a sign, i mean people didnt recover that well from the last one, and they get hit with another one ? Geez,
wow. someone must be annoyed. Earthquake again in South China and Hurricane in New Orleans...... scary
Hmm... I wonder if any more schools fell down? If it did, I'm almost certain that given the bad press the last time, the PRC government will keep such news suppressed. If anyone hears of anything involving shoddy school construction please post a link. And someone mentioned New Orleans again? Man, talk about dropping the ball. The US spent billions and nearly all of it went into the pockets of politically connected republicans. And the levees are still leaking. Damn, but we need to get Bush out of office before the sinks the rest of the United States. Oh no... too late... price of gas, the economy, home loan failures... Sob... Ralph
at the very least there are levees now... the levees actually helped this time down south... newayz... about the earthquakes... they're probably connected in someway to the other one... or it's just incredibly bad luck...
What the US needs to do is to learn from the Japanese; they've live through so many tsunami storm surge things, that they actually have entire coastal cities surrounded by levee systems. Further, when it comes to building these things, there's no argument about costs or need. They just do it because they know the consequences of not doing so. Leave it to the US to keep passing the buck and pointing the finger before anything of substance is done. If Katrina wasn't a wake up call, I don't know what would have been. As for the quakes in China, there's probably going to be residual seismic activity of varying degrees for years to come; I remember reading that such is common after a big quake. Ralph
