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peterloo · 05-13-08, 10:35 AM

Summary:
2008 Sichuan earthquake occurred at 14:28:04.1 China Standard Time on 12 May 2008 with its epicenter in Wenchuan County , Sichuan province of the PRC. It had a magnitude of 7.8 Ms according to the State Seismological Bureau of China and 7.9 Mw according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter was 90 kilometres (55 miles) WNW of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai, where office buildings swayed with the tremor, Pakistan,Thailand, and Vietnam. With 11,921 recently confirmed dead so far, it was the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake, which killed approximately 250,000 people.

(as what the format suggests, it is a direct copy of Wikipedia. It helps you to get a brief idea of what is going on.)

Additional links for those who want to know more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7395496.stm "Hundred buried" by China quake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7397489.stm Search for China quake survivors
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7397845.stm Chaotic yet organized effort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7398083.stm Eyewitness' fear and shock
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7398065.stm Children pulled from rubble

(edited since I wanted to remove the links in the Wikipedia quote which would be quite annoying)

05-13-08, 10:35 AM	#1
peterloo Commander Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 462 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Earthquake hit Sichuan China leaving thousands dead Summary: 2008 Sichuan earthquake occurred at 14:28:04.1 China Standard Time on 12 May 2008 with its epicenter in Wenchuan County , Sichuan province of the PRC. It had a magnitude of 7.8 Ms according to the State Seismological Bureau of China and 7.9 Mw according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter was 90 kilometres (55 miles) WNW of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai, where office buildings swayed with the tremor, Pakistan,Thailand, and Vietnam. With 11,921 recently confirmed dead so far, it was the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake, which killed approximately 250,000 people. (as what the format suggests, it is a direct copy of Wikipedia. It helps you to get a brief idea of what is going on.) Additional links for those who want to know more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7395496.stm "Hundred buried" by China quake http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7397489.stm Search for China quake survivors http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7397845.stm Chaotic yet organized effort http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7398083.stm Eyewitness' fear and shock http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7398065.stm Children pulled from rubble (edited since I wanted to remove the links in the Wikipedia quote which would be quite annoying) __________________ Romeo is here, but where is Juliet? The 中国水兵 (Chinese Sailor) in subsim Last edited by peterloo; 05-13-08 at 09:32 PM.