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The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China s full range of disaster response is on display: Trucks with x-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels - even a tent for insurance claims. HT Image The efforts under way on Monday in the mountainous Sichuan province after a quake on Saturday that killed at least 188 people showed that the government has continued to hone its disaster reaction - long considered a crucial leadership test in China - since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the western region of Yushu. Lushan was so heavily hit and my family s house toppled. It h
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stanley cup a new addition to the arsenal of services after natural disasters. If we can charge our phones, we are at least able to keep in touch with our family members outside and that helps to set our minds at ease. At a mini-clinic with two green cots in the open air and a small tent for doctors to sleep, a doctor said the government has learned the importance of fast coordination since the Yushu quake, which killed more than 2,600 people. Much of the initial relief in that disaster came from Buddhist monks and other non-government volunte Jyec 46 dead in landslides in Myanmar: State media
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adidas campus ens of thousands of earthquake victims in southwest China were living in tents or in the open on Monday, fearful of returning to their damaged homes a day after a magnitude 6.4 quake killed three and injured at least 300. HT Image Hundreds of aftershocks sent jittery residents scurrying for safety. We worry so much about the aftershocks. This morning we had one, and we hid anyplace we could think of, said Cai Zhongting, who was living with his family in a tent. The quake struck near China s border with Laos shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday 2130 GMT Saturday , said China s official Xinhua News Agency, citing the government s seismological bureau. The US Geological Survey measured the quake s magnitude at 6.2. Xinhua said 20 of the injured were seriously hurt. The dead inclu
air max 1 ded a 4-year-old boy who was sleeping with his mother when the mud walls of their home collapsed, burying them, Xinhua said. The mother was later rescued. Xinhua,
adidas samba citing a provincial civil affairs spokesman, said 120,000 people had been forced to leave their homes. About 20,000 to 30,000 of them were living in tents, some marked disaster relief, because the earthquake cracked walls in many buildings and made them unsafe to enter, said a man at the Ning er County Seismological Bureau, who gave only his surname, Ma. Another official from the seismological bureau, who identified himself by his surname, Ye, said others were living without shelter because of a shortage of tents. He said more
