30Aug/081
Earthquake Again
Felt a pretty decent-sized earthquake here about ten minutes ago...biggest one I've felt since the "big one" of 1989. No details just yet, though I suspect some will emerge a bit later. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: I pieced together a short piece for GoKunming about the earthquake, to which Chris had added more information. Apparently, roughly 25 people were killed, most in Sichuan.
Today I felt two more earthquakes, a fairly big one at 4:30 and a slightly smaller one an hour later. What's going on? So far I haven't come across any news about these latest ones, but I'll keep looking.
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August 31st, 2008 - 15:47
Al Jazeera has the only article I’ve seen:
http://tinyurl.com/67u5yd
Centred 50km southeast of Panzhihua, Sichuan (which I believe is pretty close to the Yunnan border), M6.1, 22 (17 in Sichuan, 5 in Yunnan) dead, over 100 (100+/- in Sichuan, 26 in Yunnan) injured.