QuoteChina 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.
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This is nothing compared to what's going to happen in 2012. :tinfoil: :pope: :Joos :area52: :cthulu:
Man this has been an awful year for earthquakes.
Victims RIP :(
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2010, 01:41:44 AM
Man this has been an awful year for earthquakes.
Really? I thought they have been doing pretty well. :huh:
Quote from: Martinus on April 14, 2010, 02:01:01 AM
Really? I thought they have been doing pretty well. :huh:
He'll be here all week. Try the kielbasa and dumplings.
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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?
REST IN WAR :punk:
It's winding up.
Rest in pieces?
Quote from: Jaron on April 14, 2010, 02:56:21 AM
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
Are we really sure it's an earthquake, not a Japanese nuclear strike? :hmm:
Quote from: Josephus on April 14, 2010, 07:10:33 AM
Are we really sure it's an earthquake, not a Japanese nuclear strike? :hmm:
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.
Peking?
Dude, we been calling it Beijing since the 80s.
Bei area? That's in California.
Pekin.
Quote from: Josephus on April 14, 2010, 08:39:44 AM
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.
Quote from: Josephus on April 14, 2010, 07:10:33 AM
Are we really sure it's an earthquake, not a Japanese nuclear strike? :hmm:
Alarming.
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2010, 09:37:36 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 14, 2010, 08:39:44 AM
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.
I shall provide support-by-fire for your writeful rage against political correctness.
I'll cover you while you move.
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Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:34:29 AM
I shall provide support-by-fire for your writeful rage against political correctness.
I'll cover you while you move.
Right on. But what if I started referring to Tel Aviv as Joppa?
QuoteMany of the buildings in Yushu were though to be made from wood.
Surely this reconstruction plan can only be helped by the quake?
At least 589 killed and 10,000 injured. :(
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36486706/ns/world_news-asiapacific/