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These before and after photos show a swelling lake created near the epicenter of the earthquake in China, caused by a landslide that blocked the Jian river. The top image was taken on May 14, 2006, and the bottom photo is from May 22, 2008, 10 days after the earthquake.



EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA

Disaster: Earthquake shakes Sichuan province; see photos from quake's aftermath



Aid: Victims lacking documentation denied shelter | U.S. offers help | Chinese-Americans make donations



Tourists: Americans survive quake unhurt



Hard-hit county: Relief finally reaches survivors in Beichuan



Damage: Troops rush to plug dams | Scientists say quake struck in 2 stages



Honoring the dead: National mourning for quake victims begins | Photos | Olympic relay suspended



Diplomacy: Taiwan's Ma says quake could open door to peace




DEADLY DISASTER BY NUMBERS

Latest facts about the May 12 earthquake that struck a city in China's Sichuan province, the country's worst in 30 years:

Magnitude: 7.9 (U.S.); 8.0 (China).

Disaster area population: 20 million.

Missing: 29,328.

Injured: 288,431.

Homeless: 5 million.

Classrooms destroyed: 6,898.

Orphans: 4,000.

Tents needed: 3.3 million.

Animals killed: 12.5 million.

Company losses: $9.5 billion.

Reconstruction: $10 billion government fund.

Sources: Chinese government.






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CHENGDU, China — Chinese officials scrambled Tuesday to move nearly 160,000 people away from a swollen mountain lake that could flood communities recovering from a deadly earthquake.
The lake was created when the May 12 quake, which killed more than 67,000 people, triggered mudslides that blocked the Jianjiang River. The lake sits upstream from the devastated towns of Beichuan and Mianyang, and the rocks holding the water in place could disintegrate at any time.

Adding to the urgency: The mountain lake is rising by 3 feet every 24 hours, Liu Ning, chief engineer at the Ministry of Water Resources, told state television. Weather forecasts call for rain Thursday and Friday.

Aftershocks continued to rattle the region. Two tremors caused more than 420,000 houses to collapse in Qingchuan County on Tuesday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Sixty-three people were injured, including six who were critically hurt.

People living downstream from the unstable lake are bracing for a deluge. Under the worst-case scenario, the flooding could raise by 44 feet the level of the Fu River that runs through Mianyang, the city's Communist Party chief, Tan Li, told local television. That would force the evacuation of up to 1.3 million people, according to the city's website.

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Authorities have decided to evacuate 158,000 people in advance. Mianyang Vice Mayor Lin Xinshuo said it was unlikely the lake would burst, but "we should prepare for it." On its website, the city predicted residents would have at least 24 hours notice before any flooding began.

Earthmoving equipment has been airlifted to the remote scene to dig a channel 200 yards wide, draining the lake before it bursts — a task that is likely to take 10 days, according to state news media. If that doesn't work, soldiers and police will blast the landslide barrier with dynamite, the official China Daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

In a live broadcast, state television showed heavy earthmoving equipment carving a channel to drain the water from the Tangjiashan lake.

"We are prepared to get rid of the trees by chopping and explosion. After that, the second batch of equipment will be moved in," Liu was quoted as saying on CCTV.

By Tuesday afternoon, more than 70,000 had been evacuated, according to Xinhua.

The quake created 35 lakes, China Daily reported.

Higher-than-normal rates of stomach pains and fever have been reported among the millions of quake survivors, but no major disease outbreaks have occurred.

About 5 million people were left homeless by the quake, and many live in tents or makeshift camps clustered throughout the disaster zone.

Qi Xiaoqiu, the director of disease prevention at the Health Ministry, said the quake knocked out much of the region's health infrastructure.

He said 12 field hospitals had been erected and tens of thousands of health professionals sent into the zone.

"With the destruction by the quake, the living and sanitary conditions have worsened for the local population," Qi said in Beijing. "Their physical conditions are weakened, (they are) more vulnerable to disease."

Diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis and diarrhea remained a threat, but no outbreaks had been reported, he said.

Contributing: wire reports

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鼠年必可旺相，成為收穫豐富的好年頭 - untrue by May

小 心 大 膽 　 鼠 年 發 威
　　鼠年是十二生肖中的第一年，去歲豬年多人生育也多人發財，可謂丁財兩旺，到年尾則遭受股災和雪災的雙重打擊。雪災可望在踏入新春天氣好轉後而消除，但是股災反映的經濟陰霾消散，則要靠全世界去努力合作，港人也要像機警精靈的老鼠，時刻要保持警惕，做好應變。

　　每年農曆年初二，官紳都會到車公廟替港人求籤，昨日鄉議局主席劉皇發在車公誕為香港居民祈福，求得一支第六十籤「上籤」，籤文曰「賢路晴明此日開，三千才子赴京臺，人逢亨通知如意，金榜標名萬古傳」，廟祝指籤文意為，市民大家開心，鼠年有新開始，內地繼續推動香港繁榮安定，港人仍須繼續努力。

　　名題金榜 首重實力

　　從籤文語意，今年港人前景减
，寓意樂觀，最重要是三千才子赴試，及要有真材實料，就可以名登金榜，香港作為中國一部分，猶如才子，要和內地各大城市一齊應試，只要能高中，前途自然無可限量。

　　鼠年港人的樂觀氣氛依然，儘管股市從高位滑落後蒸發了不少股民的部分紙上財富，收入受到日益高漲的通脹蠶食，偏偏雪災又造成的物資短缺令副食品價格飛漲。對部分受到股災打擊的港人，由沉醉而痛醒，付出了昂貴的學費，今後就要學機靈老鼠，留意在平靜氣氛下的危險。

　　對社會而言，股市早日調整，卻可避免泡沫吹得更大，避免日後爆破所帶來的更大創傷。去年在恒生指數一個月內即飆升了五成期間，部分港人開始以炒股為「正業」，無心工作和學業，坊間充斥覑各式各樣就手發財和天才股神的故事，飄飄然忘記曾經歷過樓股泡沫爆破的慘痛教訓。這陣子的冷鋒，重新提醒港人必須踏實工作和努力求學的重要。

　　比起近日內地部分省市雪災中遭受斷水、斷電、斷糧、房屋被積雪壓坍、喪失家園或有家歸不得的災民，以及世界各地受戰爭蹂躪的百姓，所承受的損失和痛楚，受股災影響的港人實在是小巫見大巫。香港本身仍是一個富裕的社會，市民在鼠年還可以希望坐享千億盈餘的政府「派大利是」，以及期待年中奧運所帶來的歡樂。

　　時局多變 靈活為先

　　小小的老鼠，能夠在十二生肖中，位列首位比威猛剛強的老虎、以至體型龐大的牛還前，據說是因為牠在各種動物中最早起來活動，又聞說這是因為牠走位靈活，在現實生活中，老鼠適應能力最強，而且善於保護自己，故此當其他猛獸凶禽紛紛瀕危之際，從沒聽過老鼠會有滅絕的憂慮，正如小小的香港，過去曾經歷大起大跌，都能⑾立不倒，適應變化，更新自強，創出一個又一個的好成績。

　　小鼠覓食，既小心又大膽，從政治上說，美國、台灣、香港今年都有選情，經濟上美國又有次按陰霾未散，港人正需要如鼠般小心翼翼；另一方面，本地經濟表現仍然強健、加上失業率下降，經濟暢旺可期，而北京奧運亦可帶來大量商機，猶如美食當前，只要港人能夠在穩健中不忘進取，鼠年必可旺相，成為收穫豐富的好年頭。
2008/2/9