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Aftershock Rattles China Quake Zone
A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins.
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Rescue workers have plucked more than 60 more survivors from the rubble following Monday's massive earthquake in southwestern China, as a strong new aftershock hit and the death toll rose to almost 30,000. The United States Geological Survey ...
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FlagRescuers pulled at least seven people alive from the earthquake debris in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday, five days after the tremor. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Wenchuan County, about 159 km northwest of Sichuan provincial ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao Saturday night urged local governments at all levels and relevant central government departments to take quake relief as the most important and pressing issue in their work. Hu, also general secretary of the Communist ...
China's premier is hero of quake rescue effort In the town of Beichuan, 60 miles to the south, thousands fled as the reports circulated. Rescue work resumed later in the day and experts were monitoring the river above Beichuan, the People's Daily ...
hina struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. President Hu Jintao flew to the battered ...
The only noises resounding in the deadly quietness in the Qingchuan County seat, devastated by an enormous earthquake, were the rumbles of an excavator. Japanese rescuers, the first group of foreign rescue professionals to arrive in the quake-...
China warned on Friday that a lake damaged by this week’s earthquake in Sichuan province may be about to burst its banks, as President Hu Jintao urged rescuers to race to save lives. Seriously injured people needed to be evacuated immediately in ...
Meanwhile, the United States Geological Survey reported a tremor of 6.1 magnitude centred 80km west of Guangyuan, the latest in a series of aftershocks to hit Sichuan province. There was no immediate word from the area of any damage or casualties. ...
The death toll from the 7.9-magnitude quake continued to climb as authorities cleared their way through pulverized towns and gained better access to isolated areas -- revealing a clearer picture of the full scale of the horror. The government raised ...
Rescue workers have returned to the Chinese town of Beichuan after the county was ordered to be evacuated amid fears that a lake may burst its banks. Thousands of people fled Beichuan in central Sichuan province, located near the epicentre of last ...
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