God Damn, it's not 2012 yet!

[Alexandru H.]

China earthquake kills hundreds in Qinghai

At least 300 people have died and others are trapped under rubble after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province, officials say.
The powerful tremor hit remote Yushu county, 500km south-west of provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT).
Chinese TV showed wrecked buildings and people scrabbling through debris, as the government began a rescue misssion.
Yushu is hundreds of miles from an airport, and it is thought rescue crews may take time to reach the quake zone.
"Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua.

A Yushu resident told Reuters news agency rescuers were trying to pull survivors from buildings.
"A lot of one-storey houses have collapsed. Taller buildings have held up, but there are big cracks in them," he said.
One official told journalists more than 85% of buildings near the epicentre had collapsed.
The official added that "a lot of students" had been buried after part of a vocational school collapsed.
Many of the buildings in Yushu were though to be made from wood.

[citizen k]

This is nothing compared to what's going to happen in 2012. 

[jimmy olsen]

Man this has been an awful year for earthquakes.

Victims RIP

[Martinus]

Man this has been an awful year for earthquakes.

Really? I thought they have been doing pretty well. 

[citizen k]

Really? I thought they have been doing pretty well. 

He'll be here all week. Try the kielbasa and dumplings.

[Jaron]

I don't quite understand the term "Rest in peace".

I mean , is there something that is causing a great disturbance to the dead that we need to wish it away with positive thoughts?

Are earthquake victims rising up as zombies somewhere?

[Caliga]

REST IN WAR

[Grey Fox]

It's winding up.

[grumbler]

Rest in pieces?

[Eddie Teach]

I don't quite understand the term "Rest in peace".

I mean , is there something that is causing a great disturbance to the dead that we need to wish it away with positive thoughts?

Are earthquake victims rising up as zombies somewhere?

Heaven = peaceful, Hell = wailing and gnashing of teeth

[Josephus]

Are we really sure it's an earthquake, not a Japanese nuclear strike?

[Neil]

Are we really sure it's an earthquake, not a Japanese nuclear strike?

The Japanese would have struck Peking, Shanghai and Nanking with atomics.

Shit, given an adequate supply of plutonium, I would strike those places with atomics.

[Josephus]

Peking?



Dude, we been calling it Beijing since the 80s.

[Grey Fox]

Bei area? That's in California.

Pekin.

[Neil]

Peking?

Dude, we been calling it Beijing since the 80s.

Peking.  Bombay.  Calcutta.  All you Renamers In The Name of Cultural Sensitivity or Caring About How Non-Anglophones Pronounce City Names In Their Countries-types can go to hell.