5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan and all over China

据国家地震台网重新核定，北京时间5月12日14时28分，在四川汶川县（北纬31度，东经103.4度)发生的地震震级为7.8级。中国其他许多省份也有明显震感。以下是部分地区情况，不断更新中。

上海居民反映震感明显

　 新华网上海５月１２日电　１２日１４点４０分许，上海的市民明显感受到有地震发生，写字楼人员和高楼居民纷纷下楼，跑到马路上，南京路步行街上挤满行人。

与南京路步行街一街之隔的汉口路上，解放日报的一位记者反映，在办公楼里有明显震感，人感到头晕。

她说，周边写作字楼上的人员纷纷下楼，南京路步行街上已经聚满了人。但到１５点左右，相关人员开始回到写字楼办公。

浦东陆家嘴金茂大厦等高楼和位于静安区威海路的上视大厦有强烈震感，不少人员纷纷撤离。

天津地区有较为明显震感

新华网快讯：受北京通州有感地震影响，５月１２日１４时３５分左右，天津地区有较为明显震感。

合肥市区有明显震感　市区秩序正常

新华网合肥５月１２日电（记者杨玉华）１４时３０分左右，合肥城区有明显震感，其中市区高层震感较强，市民在楼内感到晃动。

市中心一些高层建筑内，办公人员主动撤出建筑，但没有造成恐慌。市区秩序正常。

昆明地区地区震感强

新华网快讯：12日14时35分左右，昆明地区地区震感强，明显感到有地震发生，一些市民跑出楼外。


成都震感明显

新华网快讯：汶川发生的地震，成都震感明显，办公大楼剧烈晃动。

江西南昌地区有明显震感

新华网快讯：受四川汶川强烈地震影响，江西南昌地区有明显震感。

西安市中心震感明显

新华网快讯：四川汶川发生地震后，西安市中心震感明显，省政府大院人员纷纷从办公室跑出来。

郑州市区感觉到较强烈震感

新华网郑州5月12日电 14时30分左右，郑州市民普遍感到较为强烈的震感。室内人普遍感到晃动，室内吊灯剧烈晃动。人站在面有眩晕感。

记者在郑州的花园路、金水路一带发现，人们纷纷离开室内站在街道两侧空旷地带，听到有人喊：“地震了，快走！” 很多商户和工作人员中止了工作，议论纷纷。手机信号不好，一度联系困难。

海口市区有较明显震感

新华网快讯：四川汶川发生地震后，海口市区有较明显震感。

南京震感使有的人出现眩晕感

新华网南京５月１２日电（记者姜帆）１２日下午２时３０分左右，南京明显感觉震感，一些高楼里的办公人员、居民感到门、灯等晃动，有人有眩晕感。

市中心新街口地区写字楼里的人们被有秩序地撤离大楼避险。

内蒙古：人们感到地震后纷纷咨询地震情况

新华网呼和浩特５月１２日电（记者李云平）１４时３０分左右，内蒙古自治区一些地区均感觉到较强烈震感，一些群众纷纷向当地地震部门咨询情况。当时正是呼和浩特市各单位刚刚上班之时，许多单位工作人员感觉桌椅晃动，看到灯管来回摆动，赶紧从办公室跑到楼下。

甘肃兰州震感明显

新华网兰州５月１２日电（记者宋常青）受强烈地震影响，１２日１４时３０分许，兰州市区感受到明显震感。

市民纷纷走上街头避险，学校等单位也立即疏散人群到安全场所避险。大量停靠在路边的车辆受震动影响警报器纷纷响起。手机通讯一度普遍受阻。

银川地区办公楼等晃动达４分钟左右

新华网银川５月１２日电　１２日１４时３０分左右，银川地区明显感觉到有地震发生，办公楼等剧烈晃动达４分钟左右，手机信号一度中断。

四川汶川县不就在青藏高原边上么？

汶川县位于四川省西北部、阿坝州境东南部的岷江两岸。是阿坝州的南大门，有“川西锁钥”和“西羌门户”之称，是大禹的故乡。

民族 汶川县是羌、藏、回、汉各族人民相交汇融合的地带，有羌族35535人，占34%；藏族19743人，占18.6%；回族1377人，占1.3%；汉族48975人，占46%。是全国仅有的四个羌族聚居县之一。

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原来是大禹的故乡，大禹大神有什么启示呢？

1.据国家地震台网测定，2008年05月12日14时28分04.0秒，在四川汶川县发生M7.8级地震，震中位于北纬31.0度，东经103.4度。
　　
　　2.据国家地震台网测定，2008年5月12日,14时33分37秒（北京时间） ，在湖北黄石(北纬29.7,东经115.8) 发生6.3级地震(http://www.hinews.cn/news/system/2008/05/12/010234639.shtml)
　　
　　3.新华网北京５月１２日电 据国家地震台网测定，北京时间２００８年５月１２日１４时３５分，在北京通州区（北纬３９.８度，东经１１６.８度）发生３.９级地震。北京地区明显感觉到有地震发生。
　　
　　4.据浙江省地震台网测定，2008年5月12日14时38分，浙江省嘉兴和上海间发生Ms5.7级地震一次，我省杭州、湖州、绍兴等地均有震感。
　　 http://msn.ynet.com/view.jsp?oid=38683946
　　
　　据了解，我省浙北大部分包括省会杭州普遍有感。我省嘉兴震感强烈，房屋摇晃，海盐县实验小学玻璃破碎。目前暂无人员伤亡的报告，其他详细情况正在进一步了解之中。到目前为止发生四次余震：14时39分Ms2.8, 14时40分Ms2.8, 14时42分Ms2.6，14时45分Ms3.8。

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这明显就是以四川的地震为中心扩散到其他地区，这是向东扩散，不知道向西的西藏那边怎么样？

消息都不知道怎么说了，又看见这个

湖北省黄石地震局证实该市并未发生地震

http://news.163.com/08/0512/16/4BOP2672000120GU.html

针对网络上面正在流传的我省（湖北）黄石也发生了地震一说，记者紧急联系到了黄石市地震局，该局一女性工作人员证实黄石并未发生地震，这次地震震中在四川省汶川,黄石地区的震感属于波及地震,大家不必恐慌。（记者余宽宏）

　　

大概只有四川的那个地震是中心，其他的都是波及，而且可能仅仅是震感。

今天是距离08年8月8日，北京奥运会开幕还有88天的特殊日子，举国同“震”庆祝一天。

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今天是释迦牟尼的生日，也就是佛教的圣诞节。

2008年5月12日是农历四月初八，浴佛节。

二六二七 年前的农历四月八日，印度迦毘罗卫国的王后摩耶夫人，在蓝毗尼花园的无忧树下，生下了悉达多太子，也就是后来出家成道的佛陀。太子诞生后，一手指天，一手指地，说道：「天上天下，唯我独尊」，意思是说：「我乃是宇宙最尊贵的觉者，我将广度一切沉沦生死的众生。」，随即有两股水从天泻下，沐浴在王子的身上。后来，佛教徒每年为庆祝佛陀诞辰就沿用此例举行浴佛仪式。

Actually I would like to use this opportunity to raise this issue again, I know this is going a bit off-topic and people may say I am being selfish

First, currently there is or was a natural disaster in Burma, China did her part donating millions of dollars, and ask the Burmese government to cooperate with the international aid but they refused to do so , and yet there are accusations on the internet saying that China is keeping silent and doing nothing to help except for propping up the regime and suggest using the Olympics to again blackmail China.

Secondly, China is now still a developing country with 1.3 billion mouths to feed, going through a massive industrialisation and having many internal problems, so doesn't China need to help herself first ?

Thirdly, China herself is faced with so many natural disasters, take the January snow storm disaster, I did not hear any international community saying anything about helping China, where was the international community ? Instead I saw venomous news site writing about potential riots, civil wars, panic...It's like they really want to see it happen.

And now here comes the earthquake disaster, and I am really looking forward to seeing how the international community will react to this. Are they just going to stand there and stare ? make fun ? criticise ? or will they help ?

'Hundreds buried' by China quake

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 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.

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.

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 Beijing, the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi in Vietnam.

Panic

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.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7395496.stm

Powerful earthquake hits Sichuan
(Xinhua/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-05-12 15:39


BEIJING -- A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 pm Monday, the State Seismological Bureau said, revising a previous figure of 7.6.

The epicenter of the quake was located 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, the bureau said.

President Hu Jintao instructed to do utmost efforts to rescue and treat the victims, and Premier Wen Jiabao is on the way to Sichuan to direct the rescue efforts, according to a Xinhua report.
Four pupils died in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Monday afternoon when an earthquake toppled two primary schools in the outer Liangping County of Chongqing.

More than 100 students were reportedly injured, the local government said. In the quake-stricken areas, it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties or damage from the tremor.

"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.

With a population of 111,800, Wenchuan lies in southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, 146 km to the northwest of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan.

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

In Beijing's financial district, many workers poured from their buildings but there were no visible signs of damage. The subway system was unaffected.

"People were shouting 'get out, get out', so we all ran out of our dorm," said a student surnamed Zhang at a university in nearby Chongqing.

Xinhua reporters in many other parts of China also reported tremors. Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on walls of some residential buildings in the downtown areas, but no building collapsed.

The telecom networks in Chengdu and Chongqing cities broken down for a while after the quake. People complained they were unable to have phone calls on the fixed line or the mobile.

The quake was also felt in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan Province, where people rushed out of homes and offices and took to the streets.

Many said they felt dizzy and saw the pendant lamps on their ceilings swinging back and forth.

In Lanzhou, capital of the northwest China's Gansu Province, the quake sent many parked cars by the roadside buzzing. Xinhua reporters in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said they felt the office building rocking back and forth for about four minutes.

A retiree in Leshan City of Sichuan Province said over the telephone that a wall in her garden collapsed, while a repairman in Chongqing saw the ceiling of his factory shamble and alarmed the staff, who soon left the building. In Shanghai, people were evacuated from office buildings in Hongqiao and Nanjing Road.

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted Tongzhou District in east Beijing at 2:35 p.m. Monday. The quake's epicenter was located 39.8 north latitude and 116.8 east longitude, according to the State Seismological Bureau.

In Shanghai, people were evacuated from office buildings in Hongqiao and Nanjing Road.
Mobile phones in Chengdu and Chongqing could not be reached for a while on Monday afternoon.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-05/12/content_6678227.htm

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

还是贴准确的吧，估计的数量确定之后再说。

http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-05/12/content_8154441.htm

都江堰市聚源镇中学楼房垮塌 死亡人数己增至50余人

新华网成都５月１２日电 至12日１９时５６分，记者在都江堰市聚源镇中学事故现场发现，死亡人数己增至５０余人。

都江堰市聚源镇中学目前仍有人员被埋在垮塌的楼房下，当地政府组织了８台大型机械搜救被埋在都江堰市聚源镇中学垮塌楼房下的人员。

http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-05/12/content_8153625.htm

新华网快讯：民政部说，截至18时统计，四川省汶川县7.8级地震已造成四川、甘肃、重庆、云南等地107人死亡，34人受伤。目前灾情还在进一步统计核实中。

部分伤亡情况

四川汶川地震已造成成都45人死亡600多人受伤

重庆小学垮塌学生死亡人数增至5人 另有19人仍被掩埋

四川省都江堰一中学教学楼被震垮已知有4人死亡

四川汶川地震已造成甘肃至少10人死亡