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Wenchuan County
- The Centre of
Sichuan Earthquake
14 May 2008
Before
Earthquake:
It
was a beautiful small county bordering to Qingzang high
plateau in the northweat of Sichuan province. According
to the statistics by the end of last year, it has a total
population of 100,000 in its 13 townships, including
Weizhou (威州镇) with over 30,000 people, Miansi
(卧龙镇) more than 8,000, Yinxui (映秀镇)
6,600, Wolong (卧龙镇, where giant pandas live) nearly
3,000, Xiukou (漩口镇) 15,000, Shuimo (水磨镇) about 12,000, Longxi (龙溪乡)
over 5,000, Keku (克枯乡) 3,700, Yanman (雁门乡)
a little below 7,000, Caopo (草坡乡) more than 4,200, Yinxing (银杏乡)
nearly 3,000, Genda (耿达乡) around 2,800 and Sanjiang (三江乡)
up to 4,000 residents.
Earthquake
struck at 2:28pm on 12 May
After
Earthquake:
Of 13 townships in Wenchuan county, there
are three that are hit particularly hard with all
communications cut off from the outside world, until a
local in Yinxiu used his laptop to post the images taken
by mobile cameras onto the Internet. But soon after that,
the communication lost again and no one knows their
ultimate fate.
3 hours after
the earthquake, a local carries his injured
girlfriend to safety
Residents in
Dujiangyan (都江堰) city in
Chengdu planteau near the earthquake centre stay
overnight on streets
In the deep
night about 11pm on 12 May, up to a thousand Chengdu
residents stand in a hundred-metre long queue on
Chunxi Road waiting to nodate their blood to save the
earthquake victims.
(Photo:
scol.com.cn)
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A Divine
Warning by Mortals
Typical earthquake
clouds
On Baidu
forum, there is a short message
posted by a Chinese Netizen with
IP ID 222.132.211 at 7:54pm on
May 9, 2008, three days before
the powerful earthquake struck
Sichuan:
我刚才看见大片地震云
19：15，我在临沂看见大片地震云，不知今明两天哪里要发生6级以上强震。
At 19:15pm, I
saw earthquake clouds in the sky,
wonder in which area an
earthquake above 6 magnitude will
occur in this couple of days.
Two and
half days late at 2:28pm on 12
May, an earthquake at 7.8
magnitude shoked the whole
nation.
A high school
student works hard to keep his
trapped school mate alive
China's police and
military forces once again on the
frontline of rescuing the
survivors.
(Photos:
xinhuanet.com)
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