Quake in China kills 8,500

'Tis a sorrowful day, where many of my kinsmen have fallen to the wrath of mother nature. For my surviving kinsmen, I wish plentiful jobs from the west, and many a fair tiding.

The tide is ill for myself, alas, I have recently ordered several items from the shores of the homeland.

Uh, okay.

Anyways the toll is now to 12,000 as more aid and effort have been sent over to help out, very vicious quake and sad outcome.

If it's just 12,000 that's a miracle. It was a shallow and very intense earthquake, which means since it wasn't very deep more energy was dissipated in the surface. The area has a lot of unreinforced masonry (which is very brittle.)

Well 12,000 is the current "count". It's horrible to even say that, just measuring how bad it is by a body count, it's almost like the situation in Iraq. Damn I hope they can find every last survivor, sad day indeed to lose one in a disaster like this.

Yea. It happened fairly adjacent to a city with a metro. pop. of like 11 million people.

Disasters are bad...

True that. I cannot read "Kaneda's Kandy" on the side of your van well enough .