...now the Chinese are faced with a huge lake formed when a landslide blocked a river in Sichuan: "China's contingency plan to evacuate up to 1,300,000 flood-threatened survivors of the Sichuan earthquake got under way today with the movement of almost 200,000 people. The relocation to higher ground was started as fears grew that a huge lake may flood down from the mountains where water has built up behind an unstable landslide. The death toll from the 7.9 magnitude quake continues to climb. There are 68,858 confirmed deaths and another 18,618 people are missing, many of them presumed buried under the rubble."
30 May 2008
As if the earthquake wasn't bad enough...
...now the Chinese are faced with a huge lake formed when a landslide blocked a river in Sichuan: "China's contingency plan to evacuate up to 1,300,000 flood-threatened survivors of the Sichuan earthquake got under way today with the movement of almost 200,000 people. The relocation to higher ground was started as fears grew that a huge lake may flood down from the mountains where water has built up behind an unstable landslide. The death toll from the 7.9 magnitude quake continues to climb. There are 68,858 confirmed deaths and another 18,618 people are missing, many of them presumed buried under the rubble."
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