This last week in April has been a very tragic one.
Just today the death toll from a 6.6-magnitude
quake that hit southwest China's Sichuan has risen
to over 150, with more than 2000 injured with
both of those rates rising quickly through out the
day. The shallow earthquake struck just after 8am at a
depth of 12km, causing buildings to collapse and
setting off landslides, with rescue teams dispatched
to the area. the area where the quake hit, is home to 1.5 million
people where the Sichuan plain connects to
foothills that will rise to the Tibetan plateau.
The area is near a well-known preserve for pandas,
but it is reported by Chinese officials that they were
not affected by the quake. Dozens of pandas were moved to another presere, after their last habitat
was wrecked by the 2008 quake of similiar
magnitutde. There is an image circulating the web of a local TV
journalist who was supposed to get married today
but turned up instead for work reporting on the
disaster in her wedding dress with full makeup
done. A very odd way to spend your wedding day
but a very brave thing for the young reported to do.


Source : www.bubblews.com/news/416078-massive-earthquake-in-china-kills-over-150-tragic