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The powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and a chemical plant in central China, killing nearly 12,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the worst quake in three decades.

The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam.
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17 responses // China earthquake kills nearly 12,000

  • http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/articl...
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    Latest reports say at least 12,000 people are dead but as many as 5,000 more in one county alone might be buried! And because of badly damaged infrastructure and communications, no contact has been established with the towns at the epicenter. The news is going from bad to worse.
    abbym0308
  • Its horrendous also 1000 pupils and teachers have been kill in one school. If China are prone to earthquakes they must invest in the right infrastructure as Japan have done.

    http://article.wn.com/view/2008/05/13/1000_buried_in_on...
    hereandnow
  • I'm very interested to know if scientists have found any relationship to this earthquake to the cyclone that happen just south of it earlier this week..... I'm no scientist, but it doesn't look like a coincidence to me.
    organized_chaos
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here and here
    http://current.com/items/88950401_chinese_government_re...
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    I hope that "W" and the people over at FEMA are taking notes...

    Al Jazeera and agencies reports:

    "The Chinese government has responded quickly to Monday's massive earthquake, sending tens of thousands of troops to help rescue efforts and setting up round-the-clock medical stations..."
    Hawkmang
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    They have reported the collapse of 2 schools with apx 1000 pupils in each and 2 factories both with over 2000 people in each and a high percentage of fatalities. So I think the current estimate of 12,000 is no where near where the final figure will finsh.

    The poorest poeple do suffer the most when it comes to natural disasters, I am sure the houses built in neighboring Japan would have faired better if being struck by suck a quake.
    Purdey
  • This is what I would call Karma, China deserves a natural disaster in response to their inhumane political actions and their lack of sustainable environmental policies.
    foreversup
  • Wow, foreversup, what a terrible thing to say. I guess it's supposed to be a joke? The Chinese people "deserve" to suffer for the actions of their government, which they did not even elect? You remind me of Rev. Hagee, who said that Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans was god's punishment for a planned gay rights march. Pretty stupid and arrogant.
    Blazesboy
  • Oh come on Blazesboy, take a brake from blazing and let's get critical, homosexuality is a personal identity regardless of social or public opinion or policy, so Rev. Hagee prejudice statement is undeniable old fashioned and uncalled for; however, on the other hand, billions of ignorant newly formed middle class Chinese citizens are shopping brand name stores during their economic upheaval without taking into consideration their effect on the environment. And i say if they aren't going to stand up for mother earth, it's about time she takes matters into her own hands.
    foreversup
  • Oh, I get it. You're saying that because the people who died or were injured in the quake had not been considering the environmental impact of their lifestyles (which, if you are a Westerner, are poorer than your wildest nightmares), they more or less CAUSED the earthquake. So, in that sense, they are to blame for their own destruction.

    You think this even though earthquakes are caused by the shifting of the earth's tectonic plates, a process over which human beings have absolutely no control?



    Blazesboy
  • http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080513_1.htm
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    forever -

    I tend to agree with Blazesboy as far as your statement not being anywhere near appropriate or even accurate.

    Here are some images from the quake; I don't know how you could say these people deserved this, just because of what their government has done. Going by that skewed logic, most of the people on Earth deserve much worse.
    Humdrum
  • The problem with society is empathy. We spent too much time feeling sorry for a society self established in industrial, economic growth. I am well aware of how earthquakes occur and recognize mother earth as a metaphor rather than a literal women (I would have assumed that to be self-explanatory). But come on, who's to say what's appropriate? Contaminated rivers, lakes, loss of vegetation, and inhumane violence against people (Tibet & Chinese homosexuals) as well as against animals, none of this is appropriate however as they continue this trend. It all comes down to the idea that human civilization needs to work with nature rather than against it.

    And its the idiotic ideas that change the world, challenge the norm, and create a better tomorrow.
    foreversup
  • its nature at its finest. population control is necessary to our greater survival anyways. we can only support a certain amount of people. we obviously are having enough trouble with that in some countries. oh well. people die. no one gets out alive
    diode
  • diode and foreversup, you two win the Classy Comment Awards
    LOL
    Julie_Soller
  • I actually agree with the sentiment that, objectively speaking, there are far too many people on earth to worry about even a paltry number like 100,000 biting the dust - after all, it's to be expected that, when more people populate a given space, a higher number are going to die when an inevitable natural disaster hits. Just the Way of Things.

    However, when faced with the victims themselves, and their individual stories, I can't help but feel for them.
    That's when I get subjective; I'm only human.
    It could just as easily be me in one of those photos.

    Sure, individual lives don't matter when speaking of the Big Picture, but there is only so much of the Big Picture one can take before turning into a cold-hearted bastard - and one individual life can change the Big Picture forever.

    In any case, the world needs both types of people, and everyone should be willing to consider things from the opposite mindset.
    imho


    (sorry, I'm quite exhausted)
    Humdrum
  • Hey guys, looks like things are getting a little heated in here. Let's try to keep the conversation on the topic and not on each other.

    BenDorries
  • lol hilarity ensued with this as projected
    diode
  • I don't know but these kind of things make me wonder what will happen tomorrow.
    uthewave9

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