New Aftershocks In China Destroy Over 400,000 More Homes

Reuters:

New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades.

The houses collapsed when a 5.4 magnitude aftershock rocked Sichuan province's Qingchuan county on Tuesday afternoon, injuring 63 people, six critically, Xinhua news agency said.

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[Trueheart]

In 2006, San Francisco County stats showed 356,470 housing units. 15 million people evacuated. Unfathomable. Detailed earthquake information: http://quake.usgs.gov/

[Trueheart]

To put this in some kind of perspective for Americans, San Francisco County stats for 2006 showed number of housing units at 356,470. Fifteen million displaced by these quakes--it's unfathomable to my puny brain. And it ain't over yet. You've gotta wonder what comes next. China will never be the same. The world will never be the same.