Quake kills 67 people Qinghai, China

[Vidboy10]

Chinese media say at least 67 people have died and others are trapped under rubble in Qinghai province after an earthquake said to be magnitude 6.9.
The quake struck at 0749 (2349 GMT) 380km (240 miles) south-south-east of the city of Golmud, at a depth of 10km, according to US Geological Survey data.
It appears that at least some of the deaths occurred in Qinghai's ethnic Tibetan town of Yushu.
The quake was followed by two tremors measuring 5.3 and 5.2.
"Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua.
"Certainly there have been people hurt," one resident told Reuters news agency.
"Rescuers are trying to pull them out. A lot of one-storey houses have collapsed. Taller buildings have held up, but there are big cracks in them."
People from the Yushu prefecture highway department were frantically trying to dig out colleagues trapped in a collapsed building, department official Ji Guodong told Reuters by telephone.
Zhuo De, an ethnic Tibetan resident of Yushu, who spoke by phone from the capital of Qinghai province, Xining, after contacting his family in Yushu, said dozens of people might have been hurt.
"The homes are built with thick walls and are strong, but if they collapsed they could hurt many people inside," he said.
AFP news agency notes that the remote high-altitude region is prone to earthquakes.
The region, which is home to ethnic Mongolians and Tibetan farmers and herdsmen, is dotted with coal, tin, lead and copper mines, it adds.

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[BoxShot]

So much dead people news lately.

 

[DeMoN]

So many earthquakes in particular. I'm having trouble believing that they are all unrelated.

 

[Anakir]

I'm speechless. There are just too many natural disasters going on lately.

 

[Brian117]

BBCTEMP4LIFE.

 

[ZeroTm]

One strong quake can of course set of a chain reaction (haiti, chile). It should end soon, or at least do I hope so. Too many people died recently.

 

[RupeeClock]

One strong quake can of course set of a chain reaction (haiti, chile). It should end soon, or at least do I hope so. Too many people died recently.

Actually Haiti's Earthquake was not particularly strong. The widespread devastation was simply because their infrastructure was incredibly poor.

...Before you know it, South Park is going to take notice of all these recent earthquakes, and send in their resident geologist to resolve the problem.

 

[TM2-Megatron]

I'm having trouble believing that they are all unrelated.

Yeah, seriously. The dollar store near me was having a blowout sale on Earthquake-triggering super-weapons, and I thought to myself "well damn, that's kinda asking for trouble"

 

[Raiser]

Yeah, I too am a little worried assuming they're all related somehow. Seems unlikely that 5 + earthquakes would just coincidentally come *snap* like that over a couple months.

 

[Maz7006]

i wonder who's next

 

[Assassination]

Wow. Another quake....

 

[syko5150]

hmm maybe somewhere in Europe or Australia is next never know...

 

[Sir-Fritz]

The title of the thread made me think of quake the game not an earthquake

 

[DarkWay]

The title of the thread made me think of quake the game not an earthquake

same here

this being a gaming site primarily, seeing Quake at the start of a thread tite makes me think of the Quake games.

 

[alukadoo]

The title of the thread made me think of quake the game not an earthquake

You must be kidding me.

 

[dinofan01]

hmm maybe somewhere in Europe or Australia is next never know...
My first guesses too. I say Australia but second guess is Norway.


....but seriously this can't be a coincidence, right?


2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gore]

That's so sad

I love that game

 

[tinymonkeyt]

People in Cali have been saying the next BIG ONE is going to happen here soon... It kind of seems like it though :[

 

[DeMoN]

Death toll has climbed to 300. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_earthquake
Good thing it's not as bad as the May 2008 quake.

 

[BoxShot]

NOOOOOO! Yeah ... hopefully it won't keep increasing.