EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 23, 2013

Sichuan quake: Chinese government was warned of disaster Telegraph.co.uk "We collected the data from the Wenchuan earthquake and we calculated that there would be another big quake around 60 miles to the south west, which is Baoxing county," he said. "We gave a seminar organised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences 10 ... See all stories on this topic »

After Quake, Donors Shun Aid Groups Run by China New York Times On Monday, relief and rescue efforts continued in the broad area around Ya'an in Lushan County of Sichuan Province, the epicenter of an earthquake that struck Saturday morning with a magnitude that the United States measured at 6.6. The Ministry of ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

China Shifts to Quake Recovery Amid Questions Wall Street Journal Authorities on Monday raised the death toll from Saturday morning's quake in southwestern Sichuan province by six, to at least 192, with more than 11,000 injured and 23 missing. The temblor was measured by China's earthquake administration at magnitude ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

China Quake Rescuers Rush to Isolated Areas - VOA Voice of America Although areas such as Baoxing escaped the Wenchuan quake's destruction, Ya'An, the epicenter of Saturday's earthquake, did not. During the 2008 quake, more than 600,000 homes were damaged there and nearly 100,000 were left homeless. The majority ... See all stories on this topic » Voice of America

Sichuan earthquake: Chinese quake leaves tens of thousands left homeless in ... WPTV For Xiao, the tremor was particularly terrifying given her experience five years earlier when the same region was decimated by another earthquake that killed more than 87,000 people. She was pregnant with her son at the time, so when Saturday's quake... See all stories on this topic » WPTV

7.2-magnitude earthquake hits northern Japan Hindu Business Line A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan today, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake hit at 0305 GMT near the Russian-administered Kuril island chain, 1,490 kilometres north of Tokyo, the US Geological ... See all stories on this topic »

Amid wreckage of China quake, the desperate search for survivors CNN Some of those who evaded the tumbling debris when the quake hit on Saturday are now taking refuge under lean-to tents; others have no shelter at all. In many cases, it's too dangerous to go back inside the precarious ruins of their heavily damaged ... See all stories on this topic »

China pandas 'panicked' as forest home jolted in quake Zee News Some pandas climbed high into the tree canopy when the 6.6-magnitude earthquakestruck and suffered "differing degrees of shock," the facility said on its website. Pictures taken by the reserve showed the furry creatures clinging onto tree trunks ... See all stories on this topic » Zee News

China earthquake shears off mountainsides, kills 186 people - CNN ... The casualty count continues to rise from a strong earthquake that struck the Chinese ... Rescuers dig through rubble in quake-hit Qingren township in southwest ... www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/world/.../china-sichuan-earthquake

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