雲南新地震傷亡，美國網友的反應

22 killed as China quake topples buildings
Hotel, supermarket partially collapse; dozens injured



BEIJING — An earthquake struck China's extreme southwest near the border with Myanmar Thursday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 200.
Witnesses reported that a supermarket and a hotel had partially collapsed in the magnitude 5.8 earthquake, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Xinhua saidthere were reports that people had been buried under debris and that the tremor had caused a power outage across Yingjiang.
The agency said there had been three aftershocks, measuring up to 4.7 degrees on the Richter Scale, within 10 minutes.
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Another official on duty at the Yunnan Disaster Relief Center, Gao Shaotang, said many houses had been toppled.
The website of the government earthquake monitoring station said the quake struck in Yunnan just before 1 p.m. local time (12 a.m. ET) at a depth of 6 miles.
The United States Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 5.4.
Quakes of magnitude 5 or more are capable of causing damage.
The epicenter is in a mountainous area 1,500 miles southwest of Beijing, close to the border with Myanmar.
The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.




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uninsured
God is not done with us yet ..too many people have fallen away from their faith and belief..a man once asked God why do you put so much grief on me and God replied ..It's only then that you seek me..


we have fallen away from prayer and giving..all this world wants is for it's self...God help us all ..and for those non believers ..you WILL bow down..forget your pride you won't have any..God Bless and please pray ..for the time is at hand...look all over the world there are catastrophes everywhere...


Please God help these people in their hour of need ...

1 vote
#1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:14 AM EST
RiverDog-1572451
Chinese religion is primarily composed of four main traditions: Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The religious outlook of most Chinese people consists of some combination of beliefs and practices from these four traditions.

So I guess whoever is religious, but doesn't believe in the same things you do, gets punished?

Personally, I believe there is a higher power. However, I don't judge those who don't agree with that belief and it's quite a turnoff to run into those who do.

4 votes
#1.1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:15 AM EST
edward goodpeace
well I agree with some of you said ...." We have been so lucky of developing our own technology but in a day that will all wash away . because of selfishness,greed,poverty That has stricken us with not helping

other people.

#1.2 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:09 AM EST

amvet-1837365
uninsured-- AMEN.

#2 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:25 AM EST
Monkey Bussiness
Somebody must be playing with the magnetic feild lines of the planet earth,...too many quakes in my estimation!

2 votes
#3 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:43 AM EST
RFBS
Maybe its the sun...

Or maybe its HAARP.

#3.1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:15 AM EST

blubal42
uninsured-most people will not take heed. I for one am a believer! We are not gods and can not determine what will or will not be. There is only one God and he is the only one who knows what will be. I pray for us all. No need to send US money to China, they already have most of it!

3 votes
#4 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:20 AM EST
Tony-From-NJ
I am indeed, a god.

#4.1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:25 AM EST

b.c.-3086665
What is going on with all these earthquakes?. Something is not right, it cannot be coincidence that so many quakes have been occurring so frequently, not to mention volcanic activity as well!. Now, I'm not saying this is a prelude to the end of the world, but I find it odd that no geological scientist or agencies have addressed these quakes and volcanic eruptions, by providing answers as to why are they occurring with such frequency!.

1 vote
#5 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:36 AM EST
RFBS
I have heard two sides to this debate:

1. Some say that earthquakes are increasing.

2. Others say that we have the same amount of earthquakes, but they are just occurring in populated areas where we pay attention to them.

I don't know which is correct - maybe both.

However, Monkey Bussiness' post, above, claims to link the increase in earthquakes to our magnetic field, then couldn't it just be the sun?

Our sun is just entering its average 11.2 year cycle of increased sunspot/solar flare activity. The last time solar storms hit earth was in 2001. When C.M.E.s hit our atmosphere, they disrupt the magnetic field, among other things.

If the "health" of our magnetic field influences earthquakes on the planet, we may have our answer, here.

It winds up being a whole chain reaction.

#5.1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:25 AM EST

Crystal 5
Huh? An X-Class solar flare spouted off about 2323 UT. Any connection? The influx of extra energy in our atmosphere will most likely have a profound effect in some way.

Also, I believe I read somwhere that before some earthquakes there can be a large amount of gas expelled (underwater) - maybe this explains the fish kill.

God or Mother Earth - Either way I am expecting stormy weather ahead.

2 votes
#6 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:38 AM EST
RFBS
Crystal 5,

Interesting idea.

Yet, another part of the chain reaction that is a result of increased solar flare activity: fish kill.

Could it also be a result of flocks of birds dropping dead out of the skies?

Can gases escape on land and rise up just when a flock is flying overhead?

There may be something to this.

#6.1 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:31 AM EST

John Aalborg
To uninsured, who writes in part: "for those non believers ..you WILL bow down.."

Why would a god want us to? Do you make your own children worship you?

I suggest you let us know what you look like in your profile so we can see you coming. And turn off the bold. Duh.

4 votes
#7 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:44 AM EST
edward goodpeace
yes your right they got most of the money we have so I know they will take care of there own injured

#8 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:46 AM EST
edward goodpeace
I feel China has lots of money to help there own people with out the world sending any more aide .We can pray for there health and well being. they are only people like us. human"

#9 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:58 AM EST
Mark-3140636
Just maybe we make the sin and the punishment ourselves here, we know more about the earth, geology, weather and natural disasters more now then we ever knew. Then we build and pollute like we know nothing, then when something happens which is inevitable, especially considering our behavior, we blame God. What if God had nothing to do with it and we had everything to do with it.

#10 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:18 AM EST
kellyd-3164681
I feel for these poor people whom have been hit yet again by mother nature... Although I do have to agree, we cannot keep sending our money to all these places around the world when we here in the states need that money as well!!!!! I feel that our government needs to start looking in our own back yard to all the homeless people and those whom are being hit so hard in our economic ruin.... We are finding ourselves in a really bad situation here.... Alot of people have had to sell their homes and move into really bad living situations or on the streets because we simply cannot afford to live in this time of need.... Our people are losing jobs and their homes and our government is not even taking a second look at this problem.... I feel that we should be getting the help here before it's being sent else where at this point.....

#11 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:22 AM EST
The Wrench
unintelligent, yea ok, life is handed to you, it's what you do with it, you are not powerless, you have a mind, the ball is in your hands from the beginning

#12 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:28 AM EST
james Chivers-978169
It's a conspiracy perpetrated by the AARP to bring all of the religious nut jobs out of the closet. We old people need to keep ourselves amused as well. But 22 people out of 7 billion? I am really broke up about it. What about Mother Earth? Over populated with the human animal by 6.9 billion. Wake me up when the 10.0 quake hits California. Since we don't seem to be getting anymore be-headings in Mexico, its boring around here.

#13 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:35 AM EST
james Chivers-978169
MORE BE-HEADING IN MEXICO!!

#14 - Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:36 AM EST
SF-01952
matthew 24-7.......'and there will be earthquakes in divers places'.........today china 5.8......3-8-11 northern japan 7.3........3-3-11 chile 6.2...........2-28-11 arkansas 4.7 culminates eight weeks of activity there........2-21-11 new zealand 6.3.......2-9-11 chile 6.8.........1-29-11 hungary 4.8..........1-2-11 chile 7.1..........december 2010 indiana 3.8........japanese islands 7.4..........november japan 6.9.......october indonesia 7.5........new zealand 5.5........september fiji islands 6.3.........new zealand 7.4..........august equador 6.9........july island near australia 6.4........june mexico 6.5.........indonesia 7.0........may  pacific islands 7.2..........indonesia 7.4......indonesia again 6.6......  april china 6.9........and that's only the noteworthy quakes in the last 12 months...........watchman, watchman what is the hour ?........matthew 24 is knocking at my door..................watch and be ready....for the Lord will come as a thief in the night for the unbeliever......

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