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They are saying 10,000 dead and rising. Lots of damage and fallen buildings. Contrast that with when the USA has earthquakes- we end up with a few broken windows and stuff on the floor. Our buildings don't fall down and people don't die here.
They are saying 10,000 dead and rising. Lots of damage and fallen buildings. Contrast that with when the USA has earthquakes- we end up with a few broken windows and stuff on the floor. Our buildings don't fall down and people don't die here.
Hmmmm, that IS food for thought. I really really really wish mother nature could tell the difference between "weak" & "strong" buildings.
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They are saying 10,000 dead and rising. Lots of damage and fallen buildings. Contrast that with when the USA has earthquakes- we end up with a few broken windows and stuff on the floor. Our buildings don't fall down and people don't die here.
Tell that to the people who lived through Anchorage '64.
Can you tell me how on earth this ties into politics?
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Originally Posted by Metlakatla
Tell that to the people who lived through Anchorage '64.
Can you tell me how on earth this ties into politics?
It ties into politics this way- we have been led to think that China is some awsome rising superpower that will one day eclipse the USA. But this shows that they do have very thin skin after all. It shows that their best and brightest engineers cannot compete with ours.
This was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake which is extremely powerful. You also have to remember how densely populated China is which has a lot to do with the number of deaths in a given area. This was a terrible tradegy and I don't think it is a time to rub anyone's nose in it. How horrible that makes us look as a country.
Nah, it just shows that they experienced a natural disaster of epic proportions.
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It ties into politics this way- we have been led to think that China is some awsome rising superpower that will one day eclipse the USA.
Uh...I don't recall anyone leading me to think any such thing. But we are quite voluntarily outsourcing to them at an exponential rate.
Thin skin? I don't know. They're dealing with an aging infrastructure just like many cities in the United States are. I hardly see this kind of human tragedy as reason to gloat. Quite a few places here would fall to the same fate if a quake over 7. were to hit them.
Why hasn't this thread been closed as a bs thread! This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! China is weak based on the reality that they could not react quickly enough to a monumental disaster? Look at hurricane katrina? Look at how many lives and an entire city was destroyed due to a hurricane! Are you for real?
The facts show just how very wrong you are. The modern buildings - the new ones built recently during China's surge to modernity did just fine (and in a MASSIVE quake no less). It was the old buildings (many of them very, very old) that collapsed. All this will drive China to rebuild newer and better buildings that are up to the current standards.
China is indeed a rising power, one which will be a major player in this century.
For that matter, let's say a 7.9 quake hit the New Madrid fault near Memphis... how well do you think all the unreinforced brick buildings in that region will hold up?
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