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Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Central China
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | August 5, 2008

Posted on 08/05/2008 3:19:34 AM PDT by HAL9000

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WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A potentially destructive 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan, China, at 0949 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; earthquake; sichuan

1 posted on 08/05/2008 3:19:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

50 km (30 miles) NNW of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China
140 km (85 miles) WSW of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China
370 km (230 miles) NNW of Chongqing, Chongqing, China
1245 km (780 miles) SW of BEIJING, Beijing, China

3 posted on 08/05/2008 3:23:41 AM PDT by csvset
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To: HAL9000

Here it comes.


4 posted on 08/05/2008 3:26:29 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Men Who Died in Wars For Our Voting Rights Also Did So For The Right To Vote 3rd Party Conservative?)
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To: HAL9000

Would it be so bad if it swallowed ‘em?


5 posted on 08/05/2008 3:28:38 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

little babies, too?


6 posted on 08/05/2008 3:33:14 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Men Who Died in Wars For Our Voting Rights Also Did So For The Right To Vote 3rd Party Conservative?)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Would it be so bad if it swallowed ‘em?

What do you have against the Chinese people? Did they ever do anything to you?

7 posted on 08/05/2008 3:44:29 AM PDT by apt4truth
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Here it comes.

Here comes what?

8 posted on 08/05/2008 3:45:18 AM PDT by apt4truth
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To: HAL9000

BEIJING, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rocked the western Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu on Tuesday, near the site of May’s devastating quake that killed at least 70,000 people, the U.S. Geological Survey said.


9 posted on 08/05/2008 3:46:44 AM PDT by Int (Sins of the media: exaggeration and oversimplification)
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To: apt4truth

They are our enemies. Better get used to it. But, you are probably the kind imagining that Islam is the “religion of peace” too. Do you have much “peace in our times” yet, Chamberlain?

You will someday awake to a Chinese attack and wonder why you missed the obviousness of it all. Frickin’ ostrich.


10 posted on 08/05/2008 4:04:21 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: HAL9000
Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Central China... aftershocks in Central Casting!
11 posted on 08/05/2008 4:08:24 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If you really think the Chinese people (not the leaders) are raised to kill Americans, if their reson d’etre is to exterminate us (Chinese Daleks???) then you must prove it.


12 posted on 08/05/2008 4:37:41 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: apt4truth; Mobile Vulgus
People are people. I have no grudge against the plagued Chinese peasant suffering under the yoke.

But I DO hope that the Chinese Army, the Communist Party with all it's leaders, goons, beaurocrats and apparatchiks, which altogether probably count some millions get swallowed up or lost one way or the other.

13 posted on 08/05/2008 4:38:47 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: blu

And, of course, the most reliable way to accomplish that is by the prover being killed by the provee. No thanks.


14 posted on 08/05/2008 4:41:51 AM PDT by John W
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To: blu

Must exterminate! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

Damn pesky Doctor.


15 posted on 08/05/2008 5:49:03 AM PDT by cmdjing
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To: cmdjing

LOL! Who’s got the chinese characters? Loved the German Daleks on Journey’s End. Too funny!


16 posted on 08/05/2008 6:13:31 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: blu

It doesn’t matter at ALL if every last Chinese was “raised to kill Americans” or not. THEY aren’t running the government. We should consider every last single Chinese an enemy, man, woman child and dog. Their government is our enemy. Just like Germany’s, japan’s, etc., etc. It makes no difference if every second Chinese is as peace loving as the Pope. They are all our enemy until they rise up and change their government.


17 posted on 08/05/2008 6:26:23 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: F15Eagle

Yes.


18 posted on 08/05/2008 6:27:38 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: HAL9000

Not sure if this is the same quake, but this one is a 6.9 Big one.

JAKARTA, Aug. 5 (UPI) — An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia Tuesday but officials said no tsunami or casualties were reported.

The quake’s epicenter was about 145 miles northwest of Saumlaki in Maluku province and 106 miles under the sea bed, reported Xinhua, China (OTCBB:XHUA)’s state-run news agency.

“The quake had potential for tsunami but it did not occur and we did not issue the warning,” a meteorologist with a local agency told Xinhua.


19 posted on 08/05/2008 9:51:12 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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