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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422522
5/14/2008 9:37 AM
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Chinese troops rush to plug 'extremely dangerous' cracks in dam upriver from earthquake-hit town... MORE... drudge |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 425822
5/14/2008 9:39 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
I see nothing on this at Drudge!
Please direct me to link. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422522 (OP)
5/14/2008 9:41 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 342939
5/14/2008 9:41 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
DO a refresh or clear your cookies....its there on DRUDGE |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430448
5/14/2008 9:44 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422522 (OP)
5/14/2008 9:45 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
[link to news.yahoo.com]
DUJIANGYAN, China - Chinese state media says troops are rushing to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from an earthquake-hit city.
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Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday that 2,000 troops had been sent to work on the Zipingku Dam, upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province.
Dujiangyan saw buildings collapse and services cut off in Monday's magnitude 7.9 quake earthquake. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 428351
5/14/2008 9:45 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
its there |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/14/2008 9:45 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430310
5/14/2008 9:47 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
OK, does anybody know how big is this dam?
And are there any towns under it? |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/14/2008 9:47 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 419399
5/14/2008 9:48 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam
[link to news.yahoo.com]
DUJIANGYAN, China - Chinese state media says troops are rushing to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from an earthquake-hit city.
Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday that 2,000 troops had been sent to work on the Zipingku Dam, upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province.
Dujiangyan saw buildings collapse and services cut off in Monday's magnitude 7.9 quake earthquake. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432909
5/14/2008 9:52 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
All they can do is sandbag the heck out of it with the troops,at best hold it back for awhile. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430448
5/14/2008 9:52 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
OK, does anybody know how big is this dam?
And are there any towns under it? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 430310
i dont know if its the giant dam that most people know about or not.but i remember somebody on the original china eq pinned thread said that it was 300 miles from the epicenter. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432909
5/14/2008 9:55 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
OK, does anybody know how big is this dam?
And are there any towns under it? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 430310
Biggest dam ive ever seen!
Really sure lots of folks
in its path. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432912
5/14/2008 10:01 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Here is the Google map link of the damn that is located near Dujiangyan in Sichuan province as stated in Yahoo news.
[link to maps.google.com]
Can someone confirm it is that damn? |
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adapa
User ID: 432913
5/14/2008 10:02 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
havening just run a few searches I don't think it's the super big dam, the one larger then Hoover that we've all heard about. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430310
5/14/2008 10:04 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
I don't think that it is the Three Gorges Dam.
That one is on the Yangtze river. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430310
5/14/2008 10:07 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Holy shit, maybe it is THE DAM!!! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432913
5/14/2008 10:07 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Right, the three river dam on the Yangze is the dam which is larger then the Hoover dam. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430448
5/14/2008 10:11 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Right, the three river dam on the Yangze is the dam which is larger then the Hoover dam. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 432913
thanks.dam doom canceled. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432912
5/14/2008 10:15 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Here is the Google map link of the damn that is located near Dujiangyan in Sichuan province as stated in Yahoo news.
[ link to maps.google.com]
Can someone confirm it is that damn?
Look at the dam in the link I sent. I need someone confirm this is that dam.
Here is the coordinates of the Yangtze river dam, which is correct, is not the dam in danger.
[link to maps.google.com] |
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Insomnia
User ID: 432584
5/14/2008 10:15 AM
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dont they have a millionman army? for god sakes get the buggers out there with the superglue!
ps. this is gonna really screw up walmart shipments. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 432913
5/14/2008 10:25 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
Here is the Google map link of the damn that is located near Dujiangyan in Sichuan province as stated in Yahoo news.
[link to maps.google.com]
Can someone confirm it is that damn?
Look at the dam in the link I sent. I need someone confirm this is that dam.
Here is the coordinates of the Yangtze river dam, which is correct, is not the dam in danger.
found this
Speaking from Dujiangyan, Sky's China correspondent Peter Sharp said many local people seemed unaware of the threat.
"It (the dam) is only five kilometres away, we are downstream of it," he said.
"We understand that some of the People's Liberation Army troops that are deployed here helping with the rescue operation... 2,000 of them [have been moved] upriver to seal some serious cracks in the dam wall."
[link to uk.news.yahoo.com] |
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ridgerunner
User ID: 220689
5/14/2008 10:27 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
"The Three Gorges Dam is a Chinese hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei, China." Not the dam in question..I can't see how that would matter to the people below it....IF this one goes, the result will be awful...poor people.."There but for the grace of God, go I"...rr |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422522 (OP)
5/14/2008 10:40 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
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Insomnia
User ID: 432584
5/14/2008 10:47 AM
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im never ever gonna live below a dam.
how do they get those pictures on google earth, i would think china would be all weirded out about that.
if that dam does blow. will they update the satellite photo?
how horrible. |
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st1d
User ID: 357109
5/14/2008 10:59 AM
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im never ever gonna live below a dam.
how do they get those pictures on google earth, i would think china would be all weirded out about that.
if that dam does blow. will they update the satellite photo?
how horrible. Quoting: Insomnia
Good idea, if they use the high quality images, it'll be that much easier finding all the...
...bodies.
Be offended. It's my gift to you.
For a few seconds, it means you're awake... |
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Sireen-reborn
User ID: 425272
5/14/2008 11:02 AM
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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422522
 Um that's sireEn...two e's  sorry couldn't resist.
Thanks for the update...I saw it on Drudge
anything after 'but' is bullshit!
[link to www.myspace.com] |
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Insomnia
User ID: 432584
5/14/2008 11:05 AM
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im never ever gonna live below a dam.
how do they get those pictures on google earth, i would think china would be all weirded out about that.
if that dam does blow. will they update the satellite photo?
how horrible.
Good idea, if they use the high quality images, it'll be that much easier finding all the...
...bodies. Quoting: st1d
god, did you ever see the aftermath of the tsunami? i saw the photos of the bodies all bloated from being drowned. with their swollen tongues and bugged out eyes.
we are so desensitized. well i am at least.
i was trying to see what kind of population situation was going on down from the dam. but it's really hard to get to high resolution. looks like alot of places though. it's china of course, they have people upon people living there. which equals alot of...
...bodies |
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New Klee Errrr
User ID: 432958
5/14/2008 11:24 AM
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It is not the Three Gorges Dam that they are talking about. However, I have been reading and reading about the geology of the earthquake affected area. The basin actually moves in clockwise pattern. Some here mentioned the basin as an ancient Caldera. This is not the case. There are numerous fault lines that intersect in this area and there interaction causes a clockwise twist of the area. If you use the google map to zoom in on the area and select satellite criteria you can actually see the twisting of the land in the form of valleys. Please take a few minutes to observe because a picture is worth a thousand words in this case.
My greatest concern is that the pressure on the northwest side of the basin has been released and now pressure is building on the northeast side of the basin. This side of the basin is perilously close to the Three Gorges Dam. I played around with the map and actually zoomed in on Three Gorges. When you pull back and take a good look at its proximity to the basin is down right frightening that they built this thing so close to a seismically active zone.
From what I have gathered if Three Gorges failed you would have 4 million deaths in just the first hour. The death toll after that varies wildly but just this number alone should give you a good idea that this would be the largest catastrophe in known human history. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 270938
5/14/2008 11:46 AM | | Re: •••Chinese Dam in Danger••• | Quote |
China: Troops plug dam as death toll soars
[link to www.cnn.com]
SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (CNN) -- China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to plug "severe cracks" in a dam upriver from one of the hardest hit cities.
About 2,000 troops were sent to work on a dam near the epicenter of Monday's earthquake, state-run media reported.
The Zipingpu dam, upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province, was in "great danger," the Xinhua news agency reported.
China.org said that the 7.9-magnitude earthquake had caused "severe cracks" in the dam.
The "plant and associated buildings have collapsed and some are partly sunk," it said of the hydropower station.
The Ministry of Water Resources said that an irrigation system and Dujiangyan City -- which has a population of about 630,000 -- "would be swamped," if major problems emerged at the dam, China.org said.
Xinhua earlier reported that the death toll had risen to 14,866. An unofficial tally of deaths in individual communities -- as reported by the news agency over several days -- puts the toll at 19,565.
Xinhua also said nearly 26,000 people were still buried under debris and another 14,000 missing. More than 64,000 people sustained injuries.
Rescuers announced a piece of good news Wednesday, hailing the rescue of an eight-months pregnant woman as a "miracle," AP reported.
Zhang Xiaoyan spent 50 hours trapped in debris after an apartment building collapsed in Dujiangyan. VideoWatch Zhang Xiaoyan being rescued »
Meanwhile, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao headed to the quake's epicenter in Wenchuan county Wednesday afternoon, according to the Xinhua news agency.
"Time is life," said Wen, who is heading up China's relief effort.
Local officials said the quake killed more than 7,700 people in the town of Yingxiu -- about three-quarters of the population, according to Xinhua. VideoWatch children being pulled from the rubble »
Yingxiu is in Sichuan province, where 20,000 Chinese soldiers have been mobilized for rescue and recovery, state media reported. Another 30,000 were en route to the region.
Thousands of troops are traveling by train -- on rail lines that are also transporting supplies. VideoWatch report on plight of survivors »
"The top priority for the railway network in China is to deliver disaster-relief troops, personnel and goods to the affected area as soon as possible," said Wang Yongping, spokesman for the Ministry of Railways. He said many passenger trains would be diverted to ferry troops. View a map of the affected area »
Rubble hides quake's terrible toll
Wednesday brought new horrors from the rubble.
At one three-story school in Sichuan's Qingchuan county 178 students were confirmed dead after the building collapsed, a local official said.
Rescuers found at least 500 dead Tuesday in the Chinese district at the epicenter of the quake. Heavy rain, collapsed bridges and damaged roads complicated efforts to get troops and aid workers to the worst-hit towns. VideoWatch rescuers dig for victims »
"We will do our utmost to reopen the links to epicenter as soon as possible -- so as to restore the transportation links to the whole province," said Feng Zhenglin, China's vice minister of transport.
The epicenter of Monday's quake was in Wenchuan county, Sichuan, about 1,500 km (960 miles) southwest of Beijing.
During a visit to a school in Shifang, where more than 100 children were trapped beneath rubble, Wen promised that saving lives was a top priority.
"We will put our best efforts forward to save all those alive who can be saved," he said. "This disaster has all tested us. We all have to band together and have confidence and push forward." VideoWatch search continue for quake victims »
He also visited a stadium in the city of Mianyang, where more than 10,000 people had been temporarily resettled, Xinhua reported.
"The transportation of food must be faster," the news agency quoted him as telling government officials. "Children are short of food." VideoWatch how China's reaction to this crisis compares to previous disasters »
Soldiers dig with their hands
Hundreds of soldiers and disaster workers descended on Wenchuan, many of them digging by hand, according to the disaster relief headquarters of the Chengdu Military Area Command. Soldiers said only 3,000 of the town's 12,000 residents survived the quake.
More than 70 percent of the town's roads were damaged, and almost all bridges had collapsed, they reported.
All the beds were filled at Sichuan University Huaxi Hospital, one of the largest in the provincial capital of Chengdu. VideoWatch survivors cope with with living outside »
Nurses said the most common injuries were broken bones, bruises and scrapes. State media reported thousands of victims had sought care at the hospital, where medical supplies were running low.
Fear of becoming trapped during an aftershock led about 200 people to sleep outside in cots, on lawn chairs and on the ground outside the hospital in an area intended for bicycles.
At the Third Military Medical University Southwest Hospital, state-run media reported that nurses and doctors were donating their own blood.
Millions of homes destroyed
China is no stranger to natural disasters: A 1976 earthquake here killed more than 250,000 people. But analysts said the Chinese response to Monday's quake had been the most transparent of any disaster, with state media frequently updating casualty tolls and deploying troops rapidly to the worst-hit areas. View a photo wall of damage and rescue efforts »
Li Chengyun, vice governor of Sichuan, said about 3.5 million homes were destroyed in the province. David Jones, an English teacher in the city of Chengdu, said residents were camping out on riverbanks, in parking lots and other open spaces, despite "terrible" weather.
"People are doing everything they can to stay outside," he said. "In a lot of cases, they can't return to their buildings."
He said survivors were lining up to donate blood and remained calm, but appeared "extremely tired."
"The people here have been really helpful to each other, making sure everybody has supplies," he said. "I haven't seen any price-gouging. The mood here has gone from shock, fear, to tiredness."
Wenchuan is the refuge for much of China's panda population, and the State Forestry Administration said the 67 captive pandas among the more than 130 pandas in the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve were not injured. However, the caregivers were worried about the bamboo leaf supply. |
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