China earthquake?

Question

can anyone give me info on the earthquake in china eg how many people died, how many missing, buildings lost

Answer 1

Just turn your TV on and watch the news programmes. It's all there - over and over and over and over............

Answer 2

I know that 51,000 people died, but, the numbers of people missing is still being accounted for and buildings lost is just being recorded.

Answer 3

About 50,000 dead and lots of amputations trying to get people out of fallen beams and concrete.  I didn't realize how prevalent earthquakes were, worldwide, about 2 million per year, or 11 per day!  Wait til the one in California happens, yikes, it's supposed to be a real whopper.

Frequency of Earthquakes Worldwide

Descriptor Magnitude Annual average

Great   8 or higher   1[1]

Major 7–7.9 17[2]

Strong 6–6.9 134[2]

Moderate 5–5.9 1,319[2]

Light 4–4.9 c. 13,000

Minor 3–3.9 c. 130,000

Very minor 2–2.9 c. 1,300,000

1. Based on observations since 1900. 2. Based on observations since 1990. NOTE: The NEIC estimates that several million earthquakes occur in the world each year. Many go undetected because they hit remote areas or have very small magnitudes.

Source: National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey.

Answer 4

over 50,000...but the media will brush this off like it never happened. when around 3,000 died in the towers even till today all you hear is terror terror, al qieda, bomber plot etc on the news! the best answer i can give is watch the Chinese news channels and if your really concerned talk to the Chinese people that you may know at work etc. i pray for all those that died...i was frozen when i heard the news myself.

Answer 5

try this website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pa...

Answer 6

i think it was somink like 50,000

Answer 7

A minute sooner to help hopes burn brighter

One Foundation calling everyone to help victims of the Sichuan Earthquake

Details:http://www.sichuanearthquake.cn or http://www.sichuanearthquake.com

Donation:http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/22/n-12...

Answer 8

The death toll from the most deadly earthquake to hit China in more than three decades today reached nearly 10,000 in Sichuan province alone, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Worst hit was Sichuan province's Beichuan county, where a further 10,000 were feared injured and 80% of the buildings were flattened, including eight schools and one hospital.

As reports trickled in from areas that had been cut off since the earthquake hit this morning, the death toll is expected to rise.

There are fears over some 900 students buried in a secondary school in the city of Dujiangyan, also in Beichuan county.

Photos posted on the internet revealed arms and a torso sticking out of the wreckage of the school as dozens of people scrambled to free the students using small mechanical winches or their bare hands.

Xinhua news agency reported that 50 bodies had been recovered from the debris, but did not say whether there were survivors.

Dale Rutstein of Unicef China, said Sichuan was one of the poorest provinces in China, which would add to the scale of the disaster.

"There are a lot of people living in marginal areas that are difficult to get to and a lot of the buildings in those areas are substandard and could collapse very quickly," he said.

The 7.8-magnitude quake struck 57 miles north-west of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. Tremors from the quake, which struck at 2.28pm (6.28am BST), were felt as far away as Thailand and Vietnam.

"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.

The US Geological Survey said the quake was centred 6 miles below the Earth's surface.

In Sichuan, phone lines were cut and a website for the Aba prefecture, which includes Beichuan county, said the quake had severed several major highways in the region and communications were down in 11 counties.

A chemical plant collapsed in Shifang city, to the south-east of the epicentre, burying hundreds of people and sending more than 80 tonnes of toxic liquid ammonia leaking from the site, state media reported.

The prime minister, Wen Jiabao, had rushed to the area and the president, Hu Jintao, ordered an "all-out" rescue effort, Xinhua reported.

Rescue teams were trying make contact with cut-off areas. Thousands of army troops and paramilitary People's Armed Police were taking medical supplies to the region, state television said.

Wen appealed for people to rally together. "This is an especially challenging task," he said, reading from a statement. "In the face of the disaster, what's most important is calmness, confidence, courage and powerful command."

The quake is the worst to hit China in 32 years since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in north-eastern China which claimed up to 300,000 lives.

There was no visible damage in Beijing, about 930 miles away, but tremors were felt. The showpiece Bird's Nest Olympic stadium, which is built to withstand a 8.0 quake was unscathed, a spokesman for the Olympic organising committee said.

The region most severely affected is largely populated by Han Chinese but has sizeable Qiang and Tibetan populations. Wenchuan county, the epicentre of the quake, according to Sichuan seismologists, is also home to the Wolon nature reserve, a centre for research on giant pandas.

The Sichuan seismology bureau reported 313 aftershocks has prompted many residents, including hospital patients, to remain outdoors.

Wyndham Jamesof Save the Children said the timing of the earthquake would contribute to higher fatalities.

"The earthquake was about 2.30pm and is a time when most children are in school. There are also other institutions like orphanages and hospitals that could be affected," he said, adding that the official death toll was a conservative estimate.

State television has been broadcasting advice for those trapped in the earthquake, telling people to "keep calm and conserve energy". Survivors have been told to "seek water and food, and wait patiently for rescue".

Answer 9

THERE WOZ 750,000 PEOPLE WHO DIED. There was a couple who woz getting married wen it happened lukily they were saved. Two plate bounderies crashed twogether. These a re tectonic plates that make the earth crash

Answer 10

'Hundreds buried' by China quake  



Rescue workers have been trying to reach students of Juyuan Middle School

Almost 900 students are buried after an earthquake measuring 7.8 caused a building to collapse in south-western China, state media reports.

President Hu Jintao urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.

Premier Wen Jiabao is travelling to the area and troops are being sent to help with disaster relief efforts.

Officials have confirmed 107 deaths in the area but the figure could rise.

Cries for help

There are harrowing reports from the scene of the collapse in Dujiangyan city - about 100km (60 miles) from the epicentre in Wenchuan county.

  

Teenagers buried beneath the rubble of the three-storey Juyuan Middle School building were struggling to break free, while others were crying out for help, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Parents were watching as cranes excavated the site. Villagers rushed to help with the rescue.

Two girls said they escaped because they had "run faster than others".

Earlier, four schoolchildren were reported to have died, and more than 100 others were injured, when primary school buildings collapsed in the Chongqing area near Sichuan province, Xinhua reports.

Another person is reported to have died when a water tower collapsed in the city of Mianyang, in Santai county.

A spokesman for Gansu province said 10 people were killed and 14 injured by collapsing buildings in Pingliang and Longnan.

Forty-four aftershocks have been reported since the quake, which was the strongest to hit Sichuan province in more than 30 years, Xinhua reports.

Eyewitness Gilles Barbier: 'It was very scary'

Troops and helicopters have been sent to help with relief work.

The BBC's Quentin Somerville says the Chinese army has a good record of mobilising and getting people to safety.

State television said the quake had not caused major damage to Chengdu, which has a population of more than 10 million people, or to the nearby Three Gorges Dam.

RECENT CHINA QUAKES

March, 2008: 7.2 quake in Xinjiang - damage limited

February 2003: 6.8 quake in Xinjiang - at least 94 dead, 200 hurt

January 1998: 6.2 quake in rural Hebei - at least 47 dead, 2,000 hurt

April 1997: 6.6 quake hits Xinjiang - 9 dead, 60 hurt

January 1997: 6.4 quake in Xinjiang - 50 dead, 40 hurt

In Chengdu, residents streamed on to the streets, cracks were reported in some buildings and water pipes burst.

"Some building are cracked, but nothing major, from what we can see in the area near our hotel," Gilles Barbier in Chengdu told the BBC News website.

"The quake was really strong, continuous. Two aftershocks could be felt."

Workers in Beijing - about 930 miles from Chengdu - said buildings shook for about two minutes and many were evacuated.

In the city's financial district, people poured out of buildings, but there were no visible signs of damage.

Tremors were also felt as far afield as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi in Vietnam.

Panic



One student fainted as schools were evacuated across Sichuan province

Bobby Silby in Zhengzhou in Henan province said he was having lunch in a restaurant when he felt the tremors.

"It felt like the floor was moving all around me, everyone started running outside in a panic," he told the BBC news website. "The streets are still filled with people who haven't gone back into their buildings."

Telephone lines to the affected areas were jammed.

The area where Monday's earthquake struck lies on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.

Wenchuan county is home to the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's leading research and breeding base for endangered giant pandas.

Earthquakes are common in China - in March a 7.2 magnitude quake struck in western Xinjiang province, though the damage was limited.

Answer 11

have a look at this question it may help :-

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 12

go to BBC news.

Answer 13

This is in sichuan the biggest earthquake ever recorded there.

Answer 14

ask on google or wikipedia