China rumbles with 6.2 earthquake 9 dead, 800+ buildings collapsed

[RossMAN]

Just saw this on the evening TV news, here's a link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030722/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake_3

 

[Zim Hosein]

 

[LordRaiden]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!! Our condolences.

 

[LordSnailz]

800 buildings!? wow

 

[Binar]

14.115 houses has been damaged

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: LordSnailz
800 buildings!? wow

Yep that's what the newscast said, very devistating

 

[ElFenix]

southwest china is like the backwoods middle of nowhere... 800 "buildings," if you can call them that, is quite believable.

 

[Binar]

Originally posted by: Binar
14.115 houses has been damaged

that's what yunnan's seismology office is saying

 

[bothered]

more articles about it

 

[Chaotic42]

Yeesh. My sympathies to the victims.

 

[bootymac]

Originally posted by: Binar
14.115 houses has been damaged

0.115 of a house was damaged!!

 

[hawkeye81x]

That sucks...
A shame they can't effectively implement a building code like California...
Of course this is nothing compared to the devastation of past quakes...
pile on the sadness

 

[BruinEd03]

Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
That sucks...
A shame they can't effectively implement a building code like California...
Of course this is nothing compared to the devastation of past quakes...
pile on the sadness

it takes a while to implement codes + enforce them...it takes $$$ =/

-Ed