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Shake, rattle and roll
It appears to have been 2 quakes to hit china Monday afternoon. Xinhua and the State Seismological Bureau, reports. The first being 7.8 just 50 miles northwest of Chengdu. [Chengdu has a population of 10 million] This being felt through-out South-east Asia. Ten minutes later a smaller 3.9 centered in Beijing's east side Tongzhou District. The death toll is has reached to more than 8,500. Revised to 20,000. with predictions as high 50,000 and even surpass '76 :(
Picture linked to networkforgood.org charity
The same area was hit by a quakes before measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale in 1933, which claimed more than 9,000 lives and in the northwest of Sichuan Province were hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 back in 1976
note, Wen Jiabao has already arrived to oversee relief efforts. It took a more than a week for Bush to make it to New Orleans.
source: CRI, & yahoo
TRY HERE : http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/05/wenchuan-earthquake-in-pictures/