BEIJING - An earthquake toppled more than 1,000 houses and apartment buildings in China's southwest near the border with Myanmar, killing at least 25 people and injuring 250, the government said Friday. Photos from the scene after the quake struck Thursday showed buildings that buckled, crushing their lower floors. Police, firefighters and soldiers rushed to the area to pull out people trapped in the rubble, including a man and girl stuck in the stairwell of a four-story building, according to state broadcaster China Central Television.
JIEGU, China -- Her roommates used to call her a "lazy pig" for trying to sleep in before class. But Song Yuhuan's slowness to get out of bed saved her life -- the girls who rushed from their dorm were crushed by the walls collapsing in an earthquake that leveled their town and left 1,484 dead. Song was trapped briefly by Wednesday morning's quake, a leg and arm pinned under a wall of the third-floor room. Instead of panicking, she felt a steely calm as the others around her screamed.
I extend my condolences to those injured and to the families of the victims of today's earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.
From wire reports CHENGDU, China
Laura and I have come to the Chinese Embassy. Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much. Madam, thank you very much. We've come to express our country's condolences for those who mourn for the loved ones.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Lisa Szarkowski, +1-212-922-2643, lszarkowski@unicefusa.org, or Marissa Buckanoff, +1-212-922-2485, mbuckanoff@unicefusa.org, both of U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Total property losses from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan province in south central China on May 12 may reach $15 billion to $20 billion, catastrophe modelers Risk Management Solutions and AIR Worldwide believe. There's much uncertainty about just how much property/casualty coverage existed in the region prior to the quake. Earthquake coverage is optional in China for both residential and commercial policies. Ominously, damage was also reported to some 400 dams across the area, which is extremely mountainous. Cracks have been reported on the surface of the Zipingku dam on the Min River, near the epicenter of the quake.
I've just been briefed about how the United States private sector, faith-based community, NGO community's responding to what is a horrible human disaster in China-estimated 70,000 people have died, 18,000 people missing, 15 million people homeless, and the tally is still being counted.
REDLANDS - ESRI and ESRI China Ltd. in Beijing are supplying geographic information system (GIS) software, staffing and resources to help relief efforts in the Sichuan province of China, where an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck on May 12. ESRI is working with government officials and agencies, supplying GIS software, services, hardware, data and more, ESRI said in a news release Tuesday.
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