5 killed in China quake

[Imran Khan]

5 killed in China quake
Updated at: 1300 PST, Tuesday, November 11, 2008
BEIJING: Five factory workers were killed when a building collapsed during a powerful earthquake that rocked northwestern China, state media said on Tuesday.

The deaths were the first reported so far from the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that hit Qinghai province on Monday, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of the city of Golmud. The quake shook buildings hundreds of kilometers away and sent people fleeing into the streets.

The five workers died in the provincial capital of Xining, 615 kilometers from the epicenter, when a workshop they were building collapsed, local news agency said. One other victim was hospitalised in critical condition, it added.


its year of quikes i think

 

[Black Stone]

More Quakes? this is such sad news, RIP for the dead.

 

[Imran Khan]

6.5-magnitude quake rattles China


The Post Monitoring

BEIJING: A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck northwest China's Qinghai province on Monday, shaking buildings hundreds of kilometres away and sending people running into the streets, officials said.

The quake hit at 9:22 am in a sparsely populated area about 150 kilometres northeast of the major Qinghai city of Golmud, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake occurred at a relatively shallow depth of just 10 kilometres, the USGS said, adding that a 5.0-magnitude aftershock rattled the region two and a half hours later. China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties. In Golmud -- an industrial city that is the starting point for the railway to Tibet -- people ran out of buildings as the quake struck, Xinhua reported.

"Some residents said it was the biggest tremor they had felt" since a quake measured at 7.8 jolted the area in November 2001, Golmud official Luo Zhenggang was quoted as saying.

The Qinghai-Tibet railway was largely unaffected by the earthquake, the railway said.

 

[Tanja]

Yes, I have read it, so sad
And your know, the world is getting more complicated though,


The number of violent incidents in the Tibet conflict is getting bigger, which may be triggering further violence if solution remains undetermined.

Read more
http://www.fnotw.org/Article/Full/5926

 

[A.Rafay]

RIP to the victims!

 

[tranquilium]

Qinghai is, unfortunately, quite prone to earthquakes. It is on the edge of Himalayan earthquake zone.

 

[HariPrasad]

RIP dead...