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    A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported.
    The 7.8-magnitude earthquake was among the worst to strike China in decades, devastating a hilly region of small cities and towns in Sichuan and nearby provinces. The official Xinhua News Agency said 8,533 people died in Sichuan and dozens of other deaths were reported elsewhere.
    Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the quake, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply.
    A chemical plant collapsed in Shifang city, to the northeast of the quake's epicenter, burying hundreds of people and sending more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia leaking from the site, state media reported.
    The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
    The quake posed a challenge to a government already grappling with discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Beijing Olympics this August.
    It hit about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu in the middle of the afternoon when classrooms and office towers were full. There were several smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.
    The temblor struck hilly country leading up to the Tibetan highlands, toppling buildings in small cities and towns in the largely rural area. About 1,200 pandas — 80 percent of the surviving wild population in China — live in several mountainous areas of Sichuan.
    The earthquake occurred in an area with numerous fault lines that have triggered destructive temblor before. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Diexi, Sichuan that hit on August 25, 1933 killed more than 9,300 people.
    Xinhua said 50 bodies had been pulled from the debris of the school building in Juyuan town but did not say if the children were alive. Xinhua reported students also were buried under five other toppled schools in Deyang city.
    Xinhua said its reporters saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building in Juyuan "while others were crying out for help."
    Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."
    Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Other photos posted on the Internet and found on the Chinese search engine Baidu showed arms and a torso sticking out of the rubble of the school as dozens of people worked to free them, using their hands to move concrete slabs.
    Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system. The quake affected telephone and power networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.
    "In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service," said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.
    Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.
    "Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.
    Xinhua said an underground water pipe ruptured near the city's southern railway station, flooding a main thoroughfare. Reporters saw buildings with cracks in their walls but no collapses, Xinhua said.
    The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.
    Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the Olympics, which start in August. None of the Olympic venues was damaged.
    "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."
    In Fuyang, 660 miles to the east, chandeliers in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel swayed. "We've never felt anything like this our whole lives," said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.
    Patients at the Fuyang People's No. 1 Hospital were evacuated. An hour after the quake, a half-dozen patients in blue-striped pajamas stood outside the hospital. One was laying on a hospital bed in the parking lot.
    Skyscrapers in Shanghai swayed and most office occupants went rushing into the streets.
    In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
    The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.
    A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.
    The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.
    China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    Between this and the Myanmar Cyclone which now the death and missing poll is 62,000 I say the world is ending!

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    I wonder if the Kardashians will grace us with another public service announcement?

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    Fucking nuts.

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    I had to stop that, it was painful, god get some acting classes or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LoveSexMoney View Post
    I wonder if the Kardashians will grace us with another public service announcement?
    Wow... Kim could barely remember the script - or was she reading it.


    I saw this on the news this morning - its so sad. And the aftershocks to come... which leads me to a story..

    A couple weeks ago I was at work in Reno of all places and a 4.7 hit. It was a rolling quake... I thought it was the booze (seriously) theyve had over 100 aftershocks - I didnt even know there was a faultline there. One of the girls went home because she was afraid of CA breaking off (listens to too much Tool) anyway - if CA was going to break off wouldnt you stay in NV?!

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    OMG wtf was that...wow what a trainwreck!! I seriously thought that wasn't meant to be a commercial, that they had just taken it from the show. Because they are that dumb. Even worse that they wrote "We're not kidding"

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    Damn, I can't hear the Kardashian video from where i'm at. What are they saying?

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    OK.....gimme a minute....



    They talk about her outift and jokingly (I think) ask if its way too conservative.

    Kim: Whats this benefit for again? Burping?
    Manly sister: No, BURMA
    Kim: Oh I was kidding! I wrote my college thesis on Burma its sooo terrible over there!
    Sis: OMG, yeah its like AWFUL

    (This is the part where you can tell shes reading off a card or something, because it sounds so AWKWARD....its probably even funnier to read her as saying this, as I'm sure its impossible to imagine)

    Kim: The current military regime has control over there, even though (name I can't spell) league of democracy won over 82% of the seats in the 1990 national elections! So how do I look?
    Sis: Sexy!
    Manly sis: Its a little too conservative!
    Kim: REALLY?
    Manly sis: I'm so kidding! Are you joking?!

    Sis: So you guys realize, a free Burma would issue an end to child soldiers?
    Kim: And an end to government sponsored rape!
    Manly sis: Kim, did you REALLY write your thesis on Burma?
    Kim: Whats a thesis? Oh I'm SO kidding!
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    So 8500 people are dead and we are talking about the fucking Kardashians ? Are you serious ? Good Lord it probably is the end of the world. Pathetic.
    Feel the fear and do it anyway.

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    ^I think people are angry because they are making light of a situation.

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    Default Re: The world is ending, China death toll 8,533

    in the video, they aren't talking about a cyclone, but their fucked up government. it's true, but I don't know what the fuck they think that video is going to do. it actually pisses me off because it minimizes everything they are going through. Even the United Nations has banned them as much as they can. They don't have a lot of natural resources, but they are banned from exporting to most countries.

    I was in Burma this time last year for 3 days, and it's pretty bad (it's a 4th world country....I didn't even know those existed!) with a fucked up government, but they are largely buddhist monks and have plenty of crops to eat, so they actually didn't seem that unhappy like I thought. Actually, it was pretty enlightening. I really liked it there.

    The images on TV of war and civil uprest don't really represent what's happening.

    "the world is ending"....I don't know about that. Natural disasters happen all the time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post
    "the world is ending"....I don't know about that. Natural disasters happen all the time!
    True. But they do seem to be increasing in intensity. Or maybe the death tolls are higher because of the increased population.


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    I wouldn't say the death tolls are increasing, "
    China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people" I just think we are now more hyper aware of everything going on in the world.
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    Isn't thechaosfairy in China right now? A different part of it, I hope... anyone heard from her?
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    Well whatever is happening in the world in natural disasters sucks.

    The whole not letting the US or Other countries help out in Burma sucks. Letting all those people die sucks. This earthquake sucks. People starving, kids being raped, people abused, illness, war.

    The world suck.


    This is just my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LoveSexMoney View Post
    True. But they do seem to be increasing in intensity. Or maybe the death tolls are higher because of the increased population.
    You hit the nail right on the head. Not that I don't value human life or anything like that, but we really do have an overpopulation issue. Nature has a way of balancing things out. Plague, epidemics, war, natural disasters, etc. It's happened before, and it's happening now. AIDS in Africa, cyclones and floods, and the constant epidemics in Asia are nature's way of thinning the numbers.
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    China has a huge population, so natural disasters are likely to reflect higher death tolls there. In fact, the "top three" natural disasters were in China between the 16th and 20th centuries and killed millions.

    Yes, it's terrible, it's tragic, and I hope Myanmar allows humanitarian aid, and I hope China can respond, and hearts go out to the victims and their families.

    But as the population gets upwards of 7 billion, such an incident isn't apocalyptic.

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    ^ It's not trivial or ordinary either. This hurts my heart, and yes, I still have one.

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    My friend is in China teaching students right now...


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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Heel_Lover View Post

    The world suck.


    This is just my opinion.
    Yep.

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    i think the world is ending too. too much shit is happening, one after the other, in drastic proportions.
    "We are the coolest mothafuckas on the planet....The sky is fallin ain't no need to panic"... -Outkast

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    In my opinion it's Mother Earth dealing with the human infestation problem. 2012 peeps.
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    Well this is a nice conversation while I'm worrying about my teacher friend in China. I'll be sure to say 'Haha mother earth wins' on his grave.


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    ^^ Sorry, wasn't trying to be insensitive, or to make light of suffering. I do think that this is what's happening right now, tho. Humanity has fucked up the planet and the planet is putting things back into balance. I'm not saying your friend or any of the people who were hurt deserve it.
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