Earthquake in Sichuan, China

So we're a little late on reporting this one, down here in Dongguan we didn't feel the earthquake at all. Some reports of people here feeling the quake, but I suspect it depended on where you were and what you were doing.

To recap, about 2:28 local time yesterday, a quake about 7.8 on the Richter scale hit at Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. This is about 850 miles away from Dongguan, so it's fairly distant. However, it was felt as far away as Beijing, Shanghai, and as far south as Hanoi and Bangkok.

Video shot during quake (or aftershock) from Sichuan University in Chengdu (H/T Shanghaiist)

Shanghaiist has been giving one of the more detailed running accounts of the quake, as well as links to a lot of other sources of information. News Now is also a good source of information, picking up news feeds from over 30,000 different news sources and updating every 5 minutes.

The other big news is how much of a role Twitter has played in all this. China Herald, and One Eye'd Panda both have informative articles on this. News has been quicker coming out of blogs and Twitter feeds than the traditional news sources. With a combination of Twitter and an IM program such as Google Talk one can keep pretty well up to date on the situation.

Our hearts and prayers go out to those affected.

12:50P.M.

CCTV Video from Center of Eartquake Zone

5:33 P.M.

From a poster named Aren, posted on a China BBs this is the Google translation http://twurl.nl/uvleth WARNING This link contains some very graphic photos!

Uncle Bob