Sichuan Earthquake

Source: sg.news.yahoo.com --- 34 days ago
China allocated nearly four million dollars Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude Earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people. ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 34 days ago
BEIJING (AFP) - China allocated nearly four million dollars Tuesday in relief funds for a 6. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 29 days ago
Moving performance by ballet student who lost her leg in Earthquake. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 34 days ago
The body of a mother sheltering her dead child has emerged from beneath the rubble of a house destroyed in Saturday's Sichuan Earthquake. ...

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com --- 34 days ago
BEIJING: China allocated nearly four million dollars on Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude Earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
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Source: www.sciam.com --- 24 days ago
Geologists have a disturbing message for residents slowly rebuilding their lives in China's devastated Sichuan province after May's Wenchuan Earthquake: brace for further rattling. [More] ...

Source: www.news.uwa.edu.au --- 4 days ago
The University of Western Australia is offering a student from Sichuan University a postgraduate scholarship to study with Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall. ...

Source: www.danwei.org --- 23 days ago
From Xinhua: An aftershock measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit western China at 1:38 a.m. Friday, the National Seismograph Network Center said. The quake struck an area at 32.9 degrees north latitude and 105.6 degrees east longitude. The depth of the epicenter is about 6 km. The area joins Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City in southwestern Sichuan Province, Wudu District of Longnan City of northwestern Gansu Province, and Ningqiang County of Hanzhong City of northwestern Shaanxi Province. No casualties have been reported. ...

Source: www.danwei.org --- 35 days ago
From The China Daily : Thirty-two people have died, more than 400 injured and over 100,000 homes destroyed or damaged after an Earthquake hit Sichuan and Yunnan provinces around 4:30 pm on Saturday. The epicenter of the 6.1-magnitude quake, which has affected 500,000 people, was about 30 km southeast of Panzhihua city, near the Sichuan-Yunnan border, the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said. ...

Source: www.chinacsr.com --- 32 days ago
Bayer is providing sustainable support for the reconstruction of Sichuan Technology and Business College in Dujiangyan — one of the three colleges most heavily damaged by the Earthquake in Sichuan. The donation of classrooms, homes and a mobile clinic by the Bayer Cares Foundation is valued at around EUR825,000, and brings the Bayer group's total donations [...] ...

Source: www.ucanews.com --- 34 days ago
Xichang diocese in Sichuan province is helping victims and assessing damage to church buildings after a 6.1-magnitude Earthquake hit the province, which is still recovering from the May quake that killed tens of thousands. ...

Source: chinabystander.wordpress.com --- 34 days ago
The death toll from the latest Earthquake to rock Sichuan is beginning to mount. Xinhua now says at least 28 people died in the strong quake that hit on Saturday afternoon and destroyed 100,000 houses southeast of Panzhihua City and over the provincial border into Yunnan. The quake, which Xinhua said was a 6.1 but the [...] ...

Source: aktracker.com --- 32 days ago
AP reporting (via China’s Xinhua) a 6.1 magnitude china earth quake struck Sichuan province 31 miles southeast of Panzhihua city, a city of over 70,000 near the border with Yunnan. This is a relatively mountainous region. No reports of casualties. Even though this is in the southwest corner of the province, is this actually a [...] ...

Source: www.elephantjournal.com --- 1 day ago
KEEN’s new Marshall wallet is made entirely from rice paper and recycled rice bags, and beginning November 24 (just in time for the holiday season…), KEEN will donate all proceeds from wallets sold on their website to 1KG More, a Chinese non-profit that will use the money to buy books and school supplies for the [...] ...

Source: www.locr.com --- 20 days ago
Hello Everyone , Yesterday, wondrous uploaded photos that made me think. Newspapers and TV programs talked about 9/11. Don't get me wrong, it's important to speak about the 2,974 victims and the inconceivable attack on democracy and Western attitude. But what about the 68,620 deaths in the "Great Sichuan Earthquake" on May 12, 2008. People trying to return to daily routine in Sichuan province (2008/06/29) The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake which measured at 8.0 Ms occured in Sichuan province of China. It was also known as the Wenchuan Earthquake after the Earthquake's epicenter in Wenchuan County, Sichuan province. The epicenter was 80 kilometres west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The Earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing (1,500 kilometres away) and Shanghai (1,700 kilometres 1,056 away), where office buildings swayed with the tremor. The Earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless.It is the deadliest and strongest Earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. Strong aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 6, continue to hit the area even months after the main quake, causing new casualty and damage. wondrous , don't let the vicitims ever be forgotten. Kisses Lilly ...

Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com --- 30 days ago
Hong Kong, Sep 5, 2008 / 11:19 am ( CNA ).- UCA News agency reported this week that the Diocese of Xichang in the Chinese province of Sichuan is helping victims and assessing damage to Catholic buildings after a 6.1 magnitude Earthquake hit the region on August 30. ...

Source: xaser.com --- 28 days ago
The Chinese internets are abuzz with the idea that China’s final medal count of 51 golds, 22 silvers and 28 bronzes coincides with the date and time of May’s devastating Sichuan Earthquake — 5.12, 2:28pm. We must admit we ourselves were kind of freaked out by the connection when we first heard this. Were the heavens [...] ...

Source: newsgroups.derkeiler.com --- 14 days ago
misc.consumers.house: Sichuan Earthquake Relief ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 23 hours ago
Chinese filmmaker Pan Jianlin's documentary about the Sichuan Earthquake, Who Killed Our Children, has premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival. ...