Word: chengdu
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...news that a huge earthquake had struck the country's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 12. Little more than 90 minutes after the 7.9 magnitude quake struck at 2:30 p.m., Wen was headed for the airport. By early evening he had arrived in the provincial capital Chengdu, 930 miles (1,500 km) from Beijing. That night, the country's state-owned TV stations repeatedly broadcast scenes of the Premier rallying rescue forces, issuing orders during a rainstorm, poring over maps, even venturing into the ruins to assure victims still trapped in the rubble that they should "Hold...
...China's State Seismological Bureau reported the magnitude 7.8 quake was centered about 90 km northwest of Sichuan's provincial capital of Chengdu in Wenchuan county, which is famous for the Wolong panda-breeding center...
...epicenter, says Robbie Morris, a project scientist with the Australian Tsunami Warning System. "If you are quite close in ... at the scene, shaking will be very violent with visible cracking of ground, quite likely with heavy damage around epicenter," Morris says. The distance of the earthquake from Chengdu, which has 10 million residents, helped prevent more extensive damage. "Going as far as Chengdu ... you can expect have quite strong shaking but much lighter damage. That will depend on local buildings and local building codes," Morris says. There hasn't been an earthquake of this size in the region...
...Chengdu the shocks from the quake went on for several minutes, sending crowds of people into the streets. A local journalist said he did not see any collapsed buildings, but "a woman living on the fourth floor was complaining about her apartment wall cracking up, and a man was lamenting over his computer that fell to the floor from the desk...
...what you would expect from a bunch of guys drinking beer (lots of it) in the back room of a hotpot restaurant in Chengdu. Suggest that they might hack for cash, and the NCPH crew is outraged. "The real hackers are not doing it for a name or money," says Fisherman, who sports a small diamond-stud earring. "The real hackers keep their heads down, finding network loopholes, write killer programs and live off social security...