Guest Tony n Terrific Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China Thursday evening, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media said. The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua News Agency said. http://news.aol.com/article/more-than-300-...n/564796?cid=12 Link to comment
knloregon Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Any idea of a town or city that might be on a map--- nearest to the epicenter? Link to comment
chengdu4me Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Any idea of a town or city that might be on a map--- nearest to the epicenter? Wiki says that the total county population is 200,000. It is in the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture Link to comment
knloregon Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Where the hell is that? ---just a town name.. or some feature.. Link to comment
chengdu4me Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Here is all I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao'an_County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuxiong_Yi_A...mous_Prefecture Link to comment
Guest ShaQuaNew Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Any idea of a town or city that might be on a map--- nearest to the epicenter?http://i28.tinypic.com/351x3e9.jpg Link to comment
warpedbored Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Jin is an Anning, Yunnan girl. Anning is very close to Kunming Link to comment
tonado Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/1...uake/index.html Link to comment
Guest jin979 Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 family in Kunming.Dali and Li Jiang all felt it no one hurt. Link to comment
chengdu4me Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) That is a very rural area? Is that correct Jin? I saw pictures of some of the damage. It looks like very poor and rural area... Here's a few pics http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-hit-ma...70809chinaquake Edited July 10, 2009 by chengdu4me (see edit history) Link to comment
Guest jin979 Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 That is a very rural area? Is that correct Jin? I saw pictures of some of the damage. It looks like very poor and rural area... Here's a few pics http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-hit-ma...70809chinaquake bigger then Taos Link to comment
chengdu4me Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 That is a very rural area? Is that correct Jin? I saw pictures of some of the damage. It looks like very poor and rural area... Here's a few pics http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-hit-ma...70809chinaquake bigger then Taos Gee...really? thats not saying much! Link to comment
Guest jin979 Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 That is a very rural area? Is that correct Jin? I saw pictures of some of the damage. It looks like very poor and rural area... Here's a few pics http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-hit-ma...70809chinaquake bigger then Taos Gee...really? thats not saying much! yunnan is a big province. most is rural/country,not all village not all big city.poor in some ways rich in others. happy province yes. come visit us there next year. Link to comment
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