Earthquake at Sichuan, 7.9 on the Richter scale Options

[datass]

there was an earthquake on may 12th at sichuan, china. and it was strong enough to reach taiwan, japan, thailand and even pakistan. basically the whole china shook..

On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in Western China. By the next day, the death toll stood at 12,000, with another 18,000 still missing. Over 15 million people live in the affected area, including almost 4 million in the city of Chengdu. Nearly 2,000 of the dead were students and teachers caught in schools that collapsed.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science...hina/index.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...d-students.html

apparently there's a wikipedia article on it too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake

and youtube vid.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBoCik8RKpc

apparently what seriously sucks is that people had predicted this earthquake, but failed to act upon it. the local officials knew but did nothing. i should quote this but i've only read this in the local newspaper. it was reported that millions of frogs suddenly appeared on the streets to flee days before the earthquake.

[dustbunny]

my school's actually getting pretty involved in the rebuilding process since every summer our freshmen go to visit chengdu and we have some sort of school bond thing with them (students from our school thus have a stronger connection and feel more of an impact since they actually knew people who lived there). anyways, we're planning on fundraising for book bags that are about 30$ each with basic school supplies, half of the 30$ will go to families that have lost mothers or fathers, etc. It should work out pretty well in terms of having an immediate effect where students will be able to see their donations having an instant impact.