Zware aardbeving trof China

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Op dinsdag 27 mei 2008 02:59 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:
moah, de meren liggen er toch nog?

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Op dinsdag 27 mei 200813:47 schreef okee6 het volgende:

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Chinezen tellen (lijken) niet helemaal eerlijk, wordt wel eens beweerd. _{geen bron beschikbaar}

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Aftershocks demolish China homes

Two aftershocks have destroyed about 420,000 houses in the Chinese region hit by an earthquake two weeks ago, the official Xinhua agency says.

One of the aftershocks, in Qingchuan county, measured magnitude 5.7, according to the US Geological Survey.

The official death toll from the earthquake that hit Sichuan province on 12 May is 67,183. Another 20,790 people are listed as missing.

There were no reported causalities from the latest aftershocks, Xinhua said.

On Sunday 300,000 more homes were wrecked in Qingchuan by a strong tremor, which killed eight people and injured hundreds.

More than five million people remain homeless since the 12 May quake.

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China Govt admits quake blame

Victims of China's earthquake have received the first public acknowledgement of Government culpability.

Lin Qiang, the deputy head of Sichuan education bureau, a senior official, spoke of his feelings of guilt for the deaths of thousands of children in poorly built schools and called on fellow officials to accept responsibility for schools which had collapsed because of shoddy workmanship.

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Naschok
De aarde schokt ondertussen nog steeds in de regio. Zondag veroorzaakte een schok met een kracht van 6,0 op de Richterschaal grote paniek in een deel van de provincie Sichuan. Voorts meldden media dat veel reddingswerkers het slachtoffer zijn geworden van aardverschuivingen. Die hebben ook tal van rivieren geblokkeerd, waardoor in het rampgebied nieuwe meren zijn ontstaan. Zeker drie van die meren zijn al overstroomd.

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Water in lake rising too fast!
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of more than a million people downstream from a "quake lake" in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers could drain them.

Authorities are concerned the Jianjiang River will top the dam unless efforts to dig and blast out emergency draining channels can drastically decrease the water level.

But engineers also risk letting out too much water at one time, which could also trigger a collapse of the dam created by a 7.9 magnitude quake that devasted China's Sichuan province.

"Increasing the outflow of water is critical for the dam's safety," said Zhang Ting, head of the Sichuan provincial hydro-meteorological bureau, the Xinhua news agency reported.

"If the water flows too slowly, the inflow will increase the pressure on the dam. But again, too voluminous an outflow can erode the diversion channel and cause the dam to collapse."

Water is flowing into the lake more than four times faster than it's flowing out, Zhang said

A 475-meter-long (1,560 foot-long) spillway for the water was completed more than a week ago, but engineers enlarged it over the weekend to increase the flow.

Chinese security forces have since dug a second channel and are working on a third, said Liu Yongjian, an army officer in charge of the work, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The so-called Tangjiashan quake lake formed after last month's devastating quake. Tons of rock and soil slid off a hillside, blocking the river.

Aftershocks continue to pepper the devastated region.

A pair of magnitude 5.0 quakes have rattled eastern Sichuan province over the last 24 hours.

Officials are concerned the building water pressure combined with the aftershocks could destablize the dam and send billions of gallons of water cascading down the river valley. Heavy rainfall could also strain the dam.


It could threaten up to 1.3 million people downstream. More than 250,000 people already have been been evacuated, Xinhua reported.

More than 69,000 people died in the May 12 quake, but more than 17,000 remain missing, according to the official government toll.