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CHINA - 8.0 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Strong earthquake hits China
By China Correspondent Stephen McDonell and wires
Workers evacuate buildings in Bangkok. (Reuters: Chaiwat Subprasom)
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 has hit China's southern province of Sichuan, shaking buildings as far away as Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties or damage from the tremor which the the US Geological Survey (UGS) earlier put at 7.8.
The epicentre of the quake was 93 kilometres north of Chengdu.
Wenchuan, which took full force of the quake, has a population of 111,000 people.
It is in an ethnic Tibetan area in Aba county which recently saw violent clashes between Tibetans and Chinese authorities.
According to some reports there was second earthquake measuring 3.9 which hit the Beijing district of Tongzhou at roughly the same time.
Telephone lines in the effected area are jammed and there are still no reports of casualties.
Reports from Thailand say high buildings in Bangkok continued to shake several minutes after the tremors began.
"We felt continuous shaking for about two or three minutes. All the people in our office are rushing downstairs. We're still feeling slight tremblings," said an office worker in Chengdu.
China's tallest building, the Jinmao Tower, and other highrise buildings in Shanghai's financial district were evacuated after tremors were first felt.
"People were shouting 'get out, get out', so we all ran out of our dorm," said a student surnamed Zhang at a university in nearby Chongqing.
A spokesman for the China Earthquake Administration said it was still checking the epicentre and scale of the tremor.
I have been keeping an eye on reports with Google translate. So far, the situation is confusing. The quake was felt in Beijing, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand. There are various reports of old buildings collapsed, Chengdu airport is closed, land or cell phones are not functioning properly, water mains may have been damaged. The near Three Gorges Dam appears undamaged, as well the gas and oil factory nearby. The army has been called in. There are as yet no report of injuries.
Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Kobe,1995 was 7.3 with $200B damage and 6400 dead
but the center was only 20km away, here it's 90km away from Chengdu
Heavy and destructive earthquakes are relatively frequent in China. Scarcely one year ago with a quake of the strength 6.4 in the south of China several humans had been killed and hundreds had been hurt. With a quake of the strength 7.6 in the year 1988 748 humans died. At the end of occurred last March an earthquake with a strength of 7,2 in the province Xinjian in China.
Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
4 Chuan Wenchuan in 7.8 strong earthquake in Beijing Tongzhou 3.9 earthquake(1)
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May 12, the quake was felt strongly in Chengdu, Chengdu people in the street escape. According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan 7.6 earthquake.
新华社记者陈燮摄
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Xieshe
Latest: 4 magnitude earthquake Chuan Wenchuan revised to 7.8
-- Alert: According to the National Seismic Network re-approved - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County, Sichuan (31 degrees north latitude, 103.4 degrees east longitude) in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Chuan Wenchuan 7.6 earthquake occurred
-- Beijing on May 12 - According to China's national earthquake measuring - at 14:28 on May 12, 2008, in Wenchuan County, Sichuan (31.0 degrees north latitude, 103.4 degrees east longitude) in July 0.6 earthquake.
-- Alert: According to learn from the quake, the quake occurred in the territory of Sichuan.
4 Chuan Wenchuan in 7.6 earthquake was felt in parts of obvious
Background: Overview situation Wenchuan County, Sichuan Aba
北京通州区发生３.９级地震
Beijing Tongzhou District in 3.9 earthquake
-- Beijing on May 12 - According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:35 on May 12, 2008, the Tongzhou District in Beijing (39.8 degrees north latitude, 116.8 degrees east longitude) in 3.9 Earthquake.
<CENTER>-- Alert: at 14:35 on the 12th around the Beijing area have obviously felt the earthquake. </CENTER>
May 12, the quake was felt strongly in Chengdu. This is the Sichuan branch of technology, Huang was inverted the indoor office supplies. According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan 7.6 earthquake.
新华社记者陈燮摄
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Xieshe
May 12, the quake was felt strongly in Chengdu, Chengdu people in the street escape. According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan 7.6 earthquake.
新华社记者陈燮摄
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Xieshe
<CENTER> Nanjing was felt that there were some sense of vertigo </CENTER>
-- Nanjing, May 12 (Xinhua Jiang Fan) at 14:30 on the 12th about the Nanjing obviously feeling was felt that some buildings in the office, the residents feel doors, lights, such as shaking, it was a sense of vertigo.
Xin Jie Kou regional office in the town of people who are building the orderly withdrawal of hedge.
<CENTER> Alert: 4 Chuan Wenchuan earthquake was felt obviously the provincial government compound in Xi'an staff </CENTER>
-- News: Four Chuan Wenchuan after the earthquake, was felt obviously Center in Xi'an, the provincial government compound from the office staff have run out.
<CENTER>
7.8级
State Seismological Bureau re-approved: 40 for 7.8 earthquake Chuan Wenchuan </CENTER>
-- Beijing on May 12 - According to the National Seismic Network re-approved - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County, Sichuan (31 degrees north latitude, 103.4 degrees east longitude) in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
<CENTER>Rolling reports: Wenchuan earthquake affected by the rupture of underground water in Chengdu </CENTER>
-- Chengdu on May 12, at 14:28 on the 12th, from 159 km west of Chengdu in Sichuan Wenchuan County in the 7.8 earthquake.
成都震感强烈。
Chengdu was felt strongly.
The reporter saw that the drinking fountains in many buildings collapsed. Filing cabinets, television sets are intense shaking, some lying on the ground, books and documents of a shaman.
People are under-office building, gathered on the ground, Some mobile phone signal interruption, can not go out, the message can not be issued.
Chengdu, located in the South Second Ring Huojunanzhan overpass, the underground water pipe ruptured, the water flow will be great long road flooded streets, is still no rescue vehicles in place.
Taiwan Jiayun near the building, there's an obvious cracks in the wall.
楼层
Local floors look deformation.
Source: China Daily (Boxun Reporter: Hu Jun) [Boxun comprehensive report] <!--bodyend-->
Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="95%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#f9f9f4 height=31>4 Chuan Wenchuan earthquake of Chongqing killed four students and injuring more than 100 </TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#f9f9f4 height=24>
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Chongqing - - - learned from relevant departments of Chongqing Municipality, Chongqing this afternoon quake was felt in most areas there are obvious.
梁平县两所小学垮塌，4名学生死亡。
Liangping County, two schools collapsed, four students died. Up to now the information received, Liangping County of Chongqing comity town centre primary schools in the top floor collapsed, more than 10 students were injured, two seriously injured; Liangping County Cultural primary school buildings in the town of collapse, more than 100 students were injured, four Student killed, some students were buried. After the quake was felt in Liangping County, the county party secretary, Zhang Hua, head of Zhi-Xiong Li immediately instructed the relevant departments and all townships and towns to collect the earthquake situation.
公安、消防、医院120车已赶往现场施救。
Public security, fire fighting, hospital 120 rescue vehicles have rushed to the scene.
记
The reporters also learned that on May 12 around 2:30 pm, Youyang County, the county and the Longtan, unitary unpaid, Tahsi, the small city, Houping, and other township, the general feeling microseismicity, housing slight vibration, and no casualties Property losses. After the case, the broad masses of people from their houses went to the plaza, outdoor space, and so take shelter, at present, the county normal production and life, water, electricity, gas supply to normal.
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<CENTER>May 12, the quake was felt strongly in Chengdu, Chengdu people in the street escape.
据国家地震台网测定，北京时间5月12日14时28分，在四川汶川县发生7.6级地震。
According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan 7.6 earthquake.
新华社记者陈燮摄
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Xieshe </CENTER> -- Alert: According to the National Seismic Network re-approved - at 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County, Sichuan (31 degrees north latitude, 103.4 degrees east longitude) in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake (before the report was 7.6 Level).
新华网快讯：据从地震局了解，此次强烈地震发生在四川境内。
-- Alert: According to learn from the quake, the quake occurred in the territory of Sichuan. -- Beijing on May 12 - According to the National Seismic Network to determine - at 14:35 on May 12, 2008, the Tongzhou District in Beijing (39.8 degrees north latitude, 116.8 degrees east longitude) in 3.9 Earthquake.
新华网快讯：12日14时35分左右，北京地区明显感觉到有地震发生。
-- Alert: at 14:35 on the 12th around the Beijing area have obviously felt the earthquake.
<CENTER> </CENTER>
Xieshe
-- Alert: at 14:35 on the 12th about strong quake was felt in Kunming, obviously felt the earthquake, some people outside the House.
-- Alert: Wenchuan in the earthquake was felt in Chengdu Obviously, the intense shaking office buildings.
-- Alert: Chuan Wenchuan by four strong earthquake affected areas in Jiangxi Nanchang obviously felt.
-- News: Four Chuan Wenchuan after the earthquake, was felt obviously Center in Xi'an, the provincial government compound from the office staff have run out. Zhengzhou urban feel more strongly felt
-- Zhengzhou, May 12, around 14:30, Zhengzhou, the people generally felt more strongly felt.
Indoor people generally felt shaking, indoor chandelier severe shaking.
人站在面有眩晕感。
People are standing face sense of vertigo.
了，快走！?
Zhengzhou reporters in the Garden Road, the sea area found that people have left the indoor areas open on both sides of the street, heard someone shout: "earthquake, Fast!"
很多商户和工作人员中止了工作，议论纷纷。
Many shop owners and staff of the suspension of work,议论纷纷.
手机信号不好，一度联系困难。
Bad cell phone signals, were difficult to contact.
甘肃兰州震感明显
Lanzhou, Gansu felt obviously
感。
-- Lanzhou, May 12 (Xinhua Song Changqing) affected by the quake, at 14:30 on the 12th Xu, clearly feel the quake was felt in Lanzhou City.
市
The public one after another took to the streets safe, schools and other units also immediate evacuation to a safe place to avoid danger.
A large number of vehicles parked by the roadside shocks sirens are sounded.
手机通讯一度普遍受阻。
Mobile communications was generally blocked. Yinchuan areas such as office buildings swaying of about four minutes
新华
Yinchuan - May 12, at 14:30 on the 12th around Yinchuan obviously feel the earthquake, office buildings and other violent shaking of 4 minutes, the phone signal was interrupted. http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...0481354_1.html
Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
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</TD></TR><TR><TD width=830 colSpan=4>7.8magnitude earthquake strikes central China, killing at least 5, injuring 100
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CHONGQING -- A powerful, magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck mountainous central China on Monday, killing five people when two primary schools and a water tower collapsed, state media reported.
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Four children died when their schools in Chongqing municipality collapsed, the official Xinhua News Agency said. More than 100 students were injured, including two who were seriously hurt, the report said.
One person was killed after the temblor toppled a water tower in neighboring Sichuan province, Xinhua said.
Rescue teams were dispatched to the collapsed schools, but no details were available because communication systems were down, an official in Chongqing municipality told The Associated Press, before hanging up.
Injuries were also reported in Aba prefecture of Sichuan province, where the earthquake was centered. A statement issued by the local government said the quake cracked and collapsed buildings, and damaged mountain roads.
The statement did not say how many people were injured or give any details. The area has a population of about 110,000 residents, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The quake struck 57 miles (92 kilometers) northwest of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu at 2:28 p.m. (0628 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. It said the 7.8-magnitude quake was centered about 6 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface.
Two aftershocks of measuring 6.0 and 5.4 struck shortly afterward in the same part of eastern Sichuan, according to the USGS.
Chinese President Hu Jintao ordered that the injured be quickly treated, saying lives were of the utmost importance, Xinhua reported. Premier Wen Jiabao was headed to the epicenter and troops with China's People's Liberation Army were being dispatched to help with disaster relief.
Many phone calls to the area did not go through after the quake, which was felt as far away as Thailand, Vietnam and Pakistan. Thousands of people evacuated buildings in Beijing, some 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the epicenter.
"I've lived in Taipei and California and I've been through quakes before. This is the most I've ever felt," said James McGregor, a business consultant who was inside the LG Towers in Beijing's business district. "The floor was moving underneath me." http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/na...Dmagnitude.htm
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Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
apparantly only few buildings collapsed in Chengdu
"we felt two, three minutes long earth impacts", tell an office worker from Chengdu. "all ran from our building downward and up to now feel we still easy quakes." Panically humans would have left, report their houses in the whole city further eye-witnesses. "I did not see buildings, which had collapsed, but I saw a large tear in the wall of a house", reported a woman by telephone. The telephone connections were interrupted a little later after Chengdu and into other close convenient cities.
[Spiegel-online]
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4 Chuan Wenchuan in 7.6 earthquake did not affect the domestic A-share trading
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According to China's national earthquake measuring - at 14:28 on May 12, 2008, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan 7 6 earthquake. Although the earthquake occurred in the domestic A-closed, but on the 12th performance of the stock market, earthquakes on the A-share transactions did not have an impact. The trend showed the two cities on the 12th Xianyihouyang. Hu Zhi closed 3626.98 points, up 0.37 percent; Shen Chengzhi closed at 13166.10, up 0.66 percent.
According to Xinhua News Agency reported on May 12, according to China's national earthquake measuring - at 14:28 on May 12, 2008, in Wenchuan County, Sichuan (31 0 degrees north latitude, 103 4 degrees east longitude) in July 6 earthquake. -- At 14:35 on May 12, 2008, the Tongzhou District in Beijing (39.8 degrees north latitude, 116.8 degrees east longitude) in 3.9 earthquake.
In addition, at 14:40 on the 12th Xu, Shanghai people have obviously felt the earthquake, office buildings and residents have Xialou, went to the street, Nanjing Road walking the streets filled with pedestrians. Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street and the street at the Hankou Road, Liberation Daily, a reporter reflects, in office buildings, there are clearly felt, people feel dizzy. Lujiazui, Pudong Jinmao Tower and other buildings in Jing'an District and Weihai Lu depending on the building of a strong quake was felt that many staff have evacuated.
Although the earthquake occurred in the domestic A-closed, but on the 12th performance of the stock market, earthquakes on the A-share transactions did not have an impact. The trend showed the two cities on the 12th Xianyihouyang. By macroeconomic data on the 12th and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank announced the sale of restricted shares listed on the impact of both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Index opened sharply lower, but with the National Bureau of Statistics announced April CPI rose 8.5 percent, and basic line with expectations, worries sentiment Reduce, Hu Zhi, see 3521 low point after the rally, after as high as 3668, eventually Huzhi at 3626 points, or 0.37 percent.
Gains from better aircraft manufacturing, farming and animal husbandry, medicine, bio-pharmaceuticals, wine, aerospace stocks continued strong, stronger early this collective coal stocks pullback, the average decline in super-two percent; property stocks still fell Green , And Pudong, Shenzhen Development, in the financial market, such as aluminum, nonferrous metal shares late sudden sharp Lagao. The afternoon trading session, the morning of the afternoon the two cities continue to trend higher shocks, Hu Zhi rose to above 3600 points, to 15:00, Hu Zhi closed 3626.98 points, up 0.37 percent; Shen Chengzhi closed at 13166.10, up 0.66 percent, ultra - 1000 stocks rose.
Specific, May 12 Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges opened lower, Hu Zhi Kai 3548.61 points, Shen Chengzhi open 12869.77 points. To 11.30 am, Hu Zhi午盘at 3593.72 points, or 0.55 percent, Shen Chengzhi午盘at 12973.25 points, or 0.82 percent. Until 15:00, Hu Zhi closed 3626.98 points, up 0.37 percent; Shen Chengzhi closed at 13166.10, up 0.66 percent.
4 Chuan Wenchuan after the earthquake, General Secretary Hu Jintao gave important instructions immediately, as soon as possible rescue of the wounded, and ensure the safety of the people of disaster areas. Premier Wen Jiabao was rushed to the disaster area guide disaster relief work. The current state of earthquake emergency rescue plan has been activated an emergency, officers are actively preparing materials and equipment, rescue team members are focusing on.
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Re: CHINA - 7.5 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province
[I didn't see this yet, in this thread]
Excerpt:
More people were feared dead after a local official said 'rows of houses' had collapsed in Dujiangyan, a city with a population of 600,000.
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Singapore's SilkAir flight to Chengdu diverted
Singapore Airlines unit SilkAir said it diverted a flight headed for Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, after its pilots were told that the Chengdu airport was shut following an earthquake.
[Sing Tao network - Wenchuan County, Sichuan at 14:28 on the 12th a 7.8 strong earthquake, Mianyang, Sichuan Province and Chongqing, five people were killed, Mianyang City, a water tower collapsed, killing one person, Chongqing has two primary schools collapsed, Four children were killed and more than 100 people were injured, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rushed to the disaster areas.
According to a Xinhua report, as at present the information received, Liangping County of Chongqing comity town centre primary schools in the top floor collapsed, more than 10 students were injured, two of them seriously injured; Liangping County Cultural primary school buildings in the town of collapse, more than 100 Students were injured, four students died and 40 students were buried alive.
It is understood that at 14:30 on the 12th around, Youyang County, the county and the Longtan, unitary unpaid, Tahsi, the small city, Houping, and other township, the general feeling microseismicity, housing minor shock, no casualties and property losses.
正常。
After the case, the broad masses of people from their houses went to the plaza, outdoor places such as temporary space provided, at present, the county normal production and life, water, electricity, gas supply to normal.
Yunyang County at 14:30 on the 12th about a minor phenomenon of the earth will quake, residents of the county obviously felt the building swaying, the duration of about five minutes. After the quake was felt, causing Unicom, Mobile, PHS mobile phone signal interruption, most of the residents gathered at the square, streets and other open areas wait and see, to date, received no casualties and property losses reports, the majority of the population has been eliminated in fear of returning home. http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl...12_777513.html
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- At least 3,000 people are feared dead in Monday's earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, state-run news agency Xinhua said.
Citing local officials, Xinhua said at least 3,000 were thought to be dead in Beichuan County, part of Sichuan Province.
Earlier, Xinhua had said at least 107 people died in the 7.8-magnitude quake that rocked central China and left several hundred students feared buried in collapsed school buildings.
The quake was "felt in most parts of China," Xinhua reported, with the confirmed casualties in the provinces and municipality of Sichuan, Gansu, Chongqing and Yunnan.
Xinhua said several schools collapsed, at least partially, in the quake.
At one, as many as 900 students were feared buried.
"Some buried teenagers were struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help," Xinhua reported.
"Grieved parents watched as five cranes were excavating at the site and an ambulance was waiting."
Among the 107 dead were 55 in Sichuan Province, where 600 people were also injured, Xinhua said.
One person was killed in Santai County, in the city of Mianyang, when a water tower fell, the news agency reported.
Xinhua did not detail where the 107 deaths occurred, although it reported earlier that four students were killed and 110 hurt when a middle school building collapsed in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan City, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of the epicenter.
nother person was killed when a water tower fell in the city of Mianyang, the news agency reported.
A provincial government spokesman said they feared more dead and injured in collapsed houses in Dujiangyan City in Wenchuan County, Xinhua reported.
The news agency also quoted a driver for the seismological bureau saying he saw "rows of houses collapsed" in Dujiangyan.
Chinese President Hu Jintao immediately ordered an all-out effort to help victims of the earthquakes, Xinhua reported. It said Premier Wen Jiabao would go there to direct the rescue work.
Bonnie Thie, the country director the Peace Corps, was on a university campus in Chengdu about 60 miles from the epicenter, in the eastern part of China's Sichuan province, when the first quake hit.
"You could see the ground shaking," Thie told CNN.
The shaking "went on for what seemed like a very long time," she said.
"This is a very dangerous earthquake," said Bruce Presgrave, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake had the potential to cause major damage because of its strength and proximity to major population centers, he said. Read an explanation about earthquakes. ?
In addition, the earthquake was relatively shallow, Presgrave said, and those kinds of quakes tend to do more damage near the epicenter than deeper ones.
An earthquake with 7.5 magnitude in the northern Chinese city of Tangshan killed 255,000 people in 1976 -- the greatest death toll from an earthquake in the last four centuries and the second greatest in recorded history, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Tangshan is roughly 995 miles (1,600 km) from Chengdu, the nearest major city to the epicenter of Monday's quake.
After the first quake struck Monday, the ground shook as far away as Beijing, which is 950 miles (1,528 km) from the epicenter.
They felt "a very quiet rolling sensation" that lasted for about a minute, according to CNN correspondent John Vause.
"Our building began to sway," he said.
Thousands of people were evacuated from Beijing high-rises immediately after the earthquake.
At least six more earthquakes -- measuring between 4.0 and 6.0 magnitudes -- happened nearby over the three hours after the initial quake at at 2:28 p.m. local time (0728 GMT, 0228 ET), the USGS reported.
A spokesman for the Beijing Olympic Committee said no Olympic venues were affected by the earthquake. The massive Three Gorges Dam -- roughly 400 miles east of the epicenter -- was not damaged, a spokesman said.
The earthquake was also felt in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, and as far away as Hanoi, Vietnam, and Bangkok, Thailand, according to the Hong Kong-based Mandarin-language channel Phoenix TV.
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