A Powerful Earthquake In China Has Racked Up Victims

Many news agencies have reported much of the following news.  The deaths are at least 760 as of Thursday, with more than 11,000 injured, toppled about 15,000 homes in and around Yushu county, and caused more than 100,000 people to flee the area.

Chinese officials ordered rescue crews and supplies to Yushu on April 14th, but the area is hundreds of miles from an airport.  "Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua.

One official told journalists more than 85% of buildings in Jiegu town near the epicentre had collapsed.  "The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic - injured people, with many bleeding in the head," Zhuo Huaxia said.  "Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school.  "I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers."  Residents and monks used hand shovels and ropes to clear debris in hopes of reaching survivors.  Thursday's rescue effort was hampered by unstable bridges and collapsed roadways, making it difficult for heavy equipment to get to hard-hit areas.

Many of the buildings in Yushu, a county with a largely Tibetan population of about 80,000, were thought to be made from wood.

In Jiegu, the town closest to the epicenter, people were taken to a sporting field serving as a makeshift hospital because there are no hospitals in the town.  The areas ethnic Tibetans, which are among China’s poorest people, living as farmers and herdsmen, their houses were poorly constructed mud and brick houses that 85% collapsed. Officials have sent 20,000 cotton tents, 50,000 items of winter clothing and 50,000 quilts to victims.

Earthquake Hit the West Coast On Sunday

A chain of earthquakes as well as aftershocks rattled and shook the Pacific Coastline of the United States and Mexico on Sunday, as well as a magnitude 7.2 quake in northwest Mexico's Baja California that had been felt inside Arizona and The southern area of California, the U.S. Geological Survey documented. The tremble struck at 3:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. ET) around 175 km's (110 mls) south east of San Diego, Sunday April 4th.

A minimum of two people had been killed. Accounts of injuries along with other structural damage have occurred within northwest Mexico. In California and Arizona, there have been no immediate accounts of injuries as well as only minimal reports of damages.

Photos coming from Mexicali showed sides ripped away from structures, toppled telephone poles, damaged roads and grocery store aisles strewn with foodstuff in which had fallen off of shelves.

Inhabitants throughout Southern California and Arizona noted significant ground shakes.

Nine min's following the Mexico tremble, a magnitude 4.1 quake rattled and shook windows within Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. No damage had been noted there and it was mentioned that it is a separate tremble from the one which struck within the Baja California desert.