Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Ground-Breaking Olympics

Just what the Chinese needed, huh?

China earthquake rocks Sichuan disaster zone

One person died and 23 were injured today when an earthquake hit parts of western China. The tremor was in the same region wrecked by a quake that killed at least 70,000 people in May.

Today's tremor, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, shook the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu. The epicentre was in Sichuan's Qingchuan county, 1,250km (780 miles) south-west of Beijing, the US Geological Survey said.

Five people were seriously injured in the tremor, which toppled a bridge, cutting off a national highway, and cut roads to at least three villages, the Chinese state news agency said...."