As many as 100 people feared dead in Chinese earthquake

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian/AFP

Up to 100 people are feared dead after an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 rattled south-west China.

Seven people died and 88 were injured in the quake late on Tuesday, 21 of them seriously, the official Xinhua news agency said. It said all the dead were visitors to the area.

But China’s national commission for disaster reduction estimated that as many as 100 people may have died, based on 2010 census data of the mountainous, sparsely populated region.

More than 130,000 houses may be damaged, it added in a statement posted on its website, based on a preliminary analysis of the disaster in a remote region of Sichuan province.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/08/as-many-as-100-people-feared-dead-in-chinese-earthquake

[Ilsa]

1. That's awful. So sad for those families.

I hope the national commission is wrong.

I have to say, though, that the headline threw me a bit. A "Chinese earthquake?" I'm thinking the location should not be used as an adjective this way. I'm thinking, "As many as 100 feared dead in earthquake in China."

[yuiyoshida]

2. oh my this is sad

China has had a few major earthquakes in the last few years... this is not good.. my heart goes out to the Chinese people trying to cope with heartbreaks of death and injury.