• Beijing
    Clear Clear
    30°F

  • Shanghai
    Cold Cold
    39°F

  • Hong Kong
    Snow Snow
    63°F

  • Taipei
    Mostly cloudy with snow Mostly cloudy with snow
    64°F

  • Lhasa
    Showers Showers
    31°F

  • Urumqi
    Snow Snow
    5°F

  • Chongqing
    Snow Snow
    41°F

  • Chengdu
    Snow Snow
    41°F

  • Changsha
    Cold Cold
    34°F

  • Harbin
    Dreary (overcast) Dreary (overcast)
    -4°F

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    SUMMARY/EXCERPT:

    A 5.7 magnitude quake in Sichuan left thousands more homeless:

    “BEIJING - Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 36 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.

    The temblor Saturday in Sichuan province, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 5.7, struck along the same fault line as a May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000.

    ‘We need temporary houses … we need more than 10,000 tents,’ said Zhang Hai, head of the foreign liaison office of the Communist Party propaganda department in Panzhihua city. ‘This is a mountainous place and so we can’t build temporary houses everywhere.’”


    36 dead after weekend quake


    By Anita Chang // At AP // On September 1, 2008

    Filed In Headlines // On Sep 2, 2008 // Under Earthquakes



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