![]() | Dramatic video of earthquake damage Dramatic video recorded right after 5.12 Earthquake in Beichuan,China. Credit to the brave man who recorded this video and ITN's Bill Neely who brought this video from the man to public (and credit to CNN too). Wish the people affected by the Earthquake regain their peaceful life soon. Please help them as you can. http://www.google.com/chinaearthquake/ 北川地震发生时的录像。 |
![]() | China Sichuan Earthquake 12.5.2008 - Slideshow video. Please donate whatever amount of money you can to the China Eartquake Appeal: www.redcross.org.uk |
![]() | Sichuan Earthquake: The real story [SD38 Edition] http://www.gracefulyouth.org Video created by Donny Ouyang and Tom Wang; average high school students from the city of Richmond. |
![]() | CHINA CHINA CHINA Only a word in our heart:::Victory! Wish to the victims in Sichuan earthquake !! |
![]() | Nationwide Mourning in Beijing Mon 19 May,2.28pm - 3 minutes silence in Beijing to pay respects to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. Cars stopped on the 3rd ring road and blared their horns for 3 minutes, as drivers got out of their cars, to mark the moment that the disaster struck one week ago. Flags were at half mast and office workers stood silent to pay respect to the victims of the quake. |
![]() | Glowing Color-Clouds 30 Min Before 2008 Sichuan China Quake These clouds seemed to be glowing or somewhat luminous and seemed to resemble some characteristics of the Auroras. An earthquake light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon, similar in appearance to the aurora borealis, that allegedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity or volcanic eruptions. Scientific evidence for the presence of lights is sketchy, given that there are few references documenting the phenomenon. The lights are most evident in the middle period of an earthquake, although there are reports of lights that occurred after or even before the earthquake, as in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. They usually have shapes similar to those of the auroras with white to bluish hue, but occasionally they have been reported to have a wider color spectrum. The luminosity is typically visible for several seconds, but there have been cases in which they lasted tens of minutes. In the 1930 Idu earthquake, lights were reported up to 70 miles from the epicentre.[1], although most lights are not so far away. There have also been cases in which electromagnetic waves caused by the earthquake interfered with radio transmissions, such as during the Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960. Distinguishing earthquake lights from other transient optical phenomena can be difficult during the chaos of a tremor. For example, a bluish-white flashes that are accompanied by loud bangs or hissing during an earthquake are more likely the result of electrical arcing in power lines or transformers. |
![]() | Earthquake Destruction See earthquakes pound San Francisco and pulverize Taiwan. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source=4001 |
![]() | Trip to China Pray for those affected by the earthquake in China last week (Monday, May 12, 2008) The number of people killed is expected to exceed 50,000. btw, this is one of the last few videos you'll have to suffer through the screeching background noise! I got a webcam... -Sergio |
![]() | 30 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China Bizarre colorful (luminous/glowing) cloud phenomenon in the sky was observed about 30 mins before the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake took place. This was recorded in Tianshui, Gansu province ~450km northeast of epicenter, by someone using a cell phone. source: http://news.qq.com/a/20080513/004283.htm See similar cloud formation captured 20 minutes later in a different city, ~200km east of this location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVamNQzfYA A map of the locations with sightings of very similar phenomenon. http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2453/ecjm1.jpg More photos taken, reported 1 hr before the quake.: http://shenyun.epochtimes.com/b5/8/5/14/n2116538.htm These clouds seemed to be glowing or somewhat luminous and seemed to resemble some characteristics of the Auroras. I am not sure exactly what they were or whether they indeed had anything to do with the quake. I am no expert anyways. See if any scientists are willing to give a full explanation. If such phenomenon can be proved for its connection with earthquake occurrences, maybe they could be used as warning signs and would be life saving. If not, just learn these clouds as yet another rare atmospheric phenomenon and no need to panic when seeing them. After all, this might well be just a rare atmospheric phenomenon occurred by coincidence. Though, just wondering if there's any possibility the formation of such rare clouds be catalyzed by any event?? I guess some of you might find the following articles interesting. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/2367 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124372394605609.html http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19826514.600-curious-clou For Chinese readers: (about the poem that predicting the quake) 四川強震/李白「壓箱詩」預言? 純屬網路謠言! http://www.nownews.com/2008/05/21/162-2278152.htm |
![]() | David Letterman - Earthquake David Letterman does a segement on the LA earthquake that happened on October 1st, 1987. The anchors found a little hiding place for themselves. |
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