BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Thousands dead in Chinese quake
A powerful earthquake has killed at least 8,500 people in China's south-western Sichuan province, up to 5,000 of them in just one county. Many more are feared killed and injured in other parts of the country after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck at 1428 local time (0628 GMT). At least 50 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a school where an estimated 900 students were buried. President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims. The epicentre of the earthquake was about 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.
A powerful earthquake has killed at least 8,500 people in China's south-western Sichuan province, up to 5,000 of them in just one county.
Many more are feared killed and injured in other parts of the country after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck at 1428 local time (0628 GMT).
At least 50 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a school where an estimated 900 students were buried.
President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims.
The epicentre of the earthquake was about 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.
But earthquakes are just gonna happen. keep to the Fen Causeway
I wish I had enough perspective to know if this is a sign the earth is freaking out on us, or just routine weather disasters.
Heh. Did you miss this morning chatter?
Perspective is what I was lamenting. Not the absence of a retributive sky god... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Do you ever have days when, even as an atheist, Praying for the human race might actually seem to be a good idea? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Actually, that is funny. lol... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Maybe mammals are a bad idea in general?
Sponges seem quite tame. You can't do a lot of damage as a sponge. And if you get to be a really really big sponge, you might even get around to discovering relativity - just because it's more interesting than being stuck to the bottom of the ocean all day without your mouth open.
But stop me if I'm being too optimistic here.
:-)
Carry on among yourselves.
I'm quitting my end of this conversation. right. here. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
They are retribution for homosexual sins... or commie chinese.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
