7.5 Earthquake Kills 9k PPL in China Today | Thread profile

CNN is reporting over 100 dead, 900 students buried. 1000s evacuated from buildings in Beijing, over 900 miles away from the epicenter. www.cnn.com

The latest report says there may be 5,000 casualties. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512...hina_earthqu ake

I fear the death toll will be so much higher than reported originally. For all the victims and their families

I have still seen no report on whether any of the kids trapped in the high school were found alive. They keep saying they are trapped, but if a building collapsed on them......just horrible.

How horrible. Here lately natural disasters and the deaths related to them have been staggering. It is so heartwrenching to see this happen over and over.

7.5 Earthquake Kills 9k PPL in China Today http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/ts_nm/quake_dc _20

So awful and scary. My brother's girlfriend was scheduled to arrive in China right before this happened. I talked with him this morning. Poor guy had heard the news earlier but thought no one had been killed as the first reports out didn't state this. But we believe she was far away enough from the epicenter to assume she is safe. For all the victims and their families...

Could it be a sign that the "End is Near"?

They've upgraded the earthquake magnitude to 7.9 and the death toll is expected to climb as they dig out all the collapsed structures. Schools, homes and factories... Scary. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap...=rss_topstor ies They say that the authorities haven't even been able to reach the epicenter yet due to damage...

quote: Originally posted by JumpingBean [*]Could it be a sign that the "End is Near"? [/*] I don't know. It's my opinion that the earth is simply rearranging itself. All that oil being pumped out leaves empty spaces. Go ahead and laugh, it makes sense to me. Just gravity, doing it's thing.