it was around 2:30pm just now. Out of sudden I felt dizzy and developed headache. my co-worker next to me ask me if i felt the earthquake... then he quickly checked online and found this :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan.html#details
(what you see now is already been updated. 10 minutes ago it was still just very basic info of where it might have take place.)
about over 40 minutes... finally there was a news post by sohu.
it's here: http://news.sohu.com/20080512/n256802637.shtml
my roommate just returned to Sichuan after the May 1st long weekend. I sent him an SMS and he called me back around 3:24pm, almost an hour after the earthquake. He's located in Nanchong (Northe East of Chengdu). He said the telecommunication network was down and it went just back up on. He managed to contact his mom and he called me after that. He said they probably need to stay out tonight. I suggest him get more food at this point of time. Survival is important and food is important.
the Sohu news reported the center of the earthquake is Wenchuan, Sichuan. now news on the situations or any statistics have been reported.
2008 is a year that every Chinese is happily expecting and looking forward to. It is also a year that the entire nation have disasters one after another... the cold disaster, tibetian riats, olympics torch relay cases, the train crash, and NOW it's natural disaster - earthquake... 10 years ago... China was flooded with water in the central and southern part. it's only end of spring and there were already so many things happening. really hope after all these the Beijing 2008 Olympics will create history... the one that shows the pride and proud of the Chinese.
while writing, just got another news covered the earthquake from QQ.com:
http://news.qq.com/a/20080512/002522.htm?qq=0
a friends sent an IM message saying: today is 88 days to the 8-8-08' 8:08:08pm Beijing Olympics. the entire country was shaking to remember the longest 8s ever in history. some more the magnitude of the earthquake is reported as 7.8. Glad that it was not 8.8. (scary!)
hope the friends overseas could get in touch with your family! All the best!
it's time again to test how Chinese government is reacting to the large scale natural disasters.
more news while blogging:
http://news.sina.com.cn/z/08earthquake/index.shtml
http://michristensen.blogspot.com/2008/05/earthquake-in-china.html (video)
Beijing, Shanghai and even Hainan all experienced the (sorta nation-wide) shake... especially for people in high-rises.
all this news are being passed around on twitter.com. a twitterer said, " It is amazing the way we can cover news on twitter. Far faster than the professionals."
updated: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html
(yes... we started talking about right after the shake... then we know Beijing, Shanghai and many other cities have experienced the earthquake on different levels. that's how fast...
on the other hand, the very first info was found via the US websites. How grassrootie are they!!! =p it's almost within 5minutes the info was up on the site and after 40 minutes, it was updated again. all faster than the news professions here in China.. well it could be well understood that the network was down (might still be down) but then, how did the USGS found out about the earthquake in China. You've gotta believe in technology, don't you? try watching "Iron Man" )
updated: 16:18
messages passing on QQ chats
天将降大任于斯国也,必先撞其火车,抢其火炬,震其国土，涨其物价，空泛其民。updated(16:56) tracking "earthquake" & "chengdu" on twitter now... it's amazing how many people are talking about it... how fast it is spreading right now. twitter is a media... seems Vietnam and Thailand experienced the aftershocks too. gosh! it's not about China... it's global!!!
各位网民，请大家少安毋躁。
全国都有地震的感觉。
经国家科学院最新研究得出结果。此次地震是因为外星人来看奥运会，飞船着陆没处理造成的。
请大家继续聊天。
国务院党中央
最权威的解释：今天是距离08年8月8日，北京奥运会还有88天的特殊日子，举国同震庆祝一天
I guess it's time to put this up and let you know how this earthquake might travel.
it was pretty accurate for beijing.
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