Arjensbag wrote:
Hi, What a horrible situation there. haw close are you to that? we hope for the best.
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008ryan/ciim_display.html
The orange bubble shows where the quake was felt most but as you can see from all of the other reported quake reports it was felt as far north as Beijing (top
right blue bubble). We are far but to my thinking China is one huge waterway, i.e. my wife's city is on a peninsula just northeast of beijing near Korea.
Many parts of it are likely below or very near sea level as it is surrounded by water on three sides out of four. One day,maybe in our kids lifetime, Shanghai
(3 rivers meet in the middle of this city) may wind up underwater as global warming erodes the sea levels and floods it out. It is a definate likelihood this
will happen. Infrastructure in China, forget it. Too many people and not enough money from taxes coming in to support it. We dion't know how lucky we are
to have the safety in infrastructure that we do.
By the way, no running water today. The government shut it off for an undetermined usually 6-8 hour length of time. You never know when they will shut it, and
it always is an unpleasant suprise.
