Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000

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Dear friends,

 

The 28° Scorpio rising chart does not have the classic configuration for an earthquake, in terms of an affliction to the 4th house or its lord, Saturn. Moreover, the explanation for this earthquake is quite round about.

 

First, the chart shows natal Ketu afflicting natal 11th lord Mercury in the 11th house. Moreover, the natal nodes afflict all the odd numbered houses, including the 11th house, which houses the 10th lord, Sun, the dispositor of the 4th lord Saturn.

 

At the present time, transit 11th lord Mercury at 19° Taurus is afflicted by natal Ketu, while Rahu at 29° Capricorn afflicts the 11th house MEP. Transit 4th lord Saturn is in Leo and the 10th house. Meanwhile, transit 10th lord Sun is in Aries in the 6th house. Its dispositor is 6th lord Mars. This planet is both natally and in transit placed in the 9th house. The 9th house, in turn, is natally afflicted by Rahu in the 5th house and is presently afflicted by transit Ketu which is conjunct the 9th house MEP.

 

By comparison, the massive earthquake on July 28, 1976 which caused several hundered thousand people to lose their lives has a more direct transit affliction of 4th lord Saturn in the chart.

 

Best wishes,

 

Thor

 

 

Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000

 

 

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

 

BEIJING - A powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed.

The official Xinhua News Agency said 3,000 to 5,000 people had died in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake. Another 10,000 people there were believed to be hurt.

The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Four of the dead were ninth-grade students killed when their high school collapsed, Xinhua said. Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Xinhua did not say how many of the students were feared dead.

It said its reporters in Juyuan township, about 60 miles from the epicenter, saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building "while others were crying out for help."

Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."

The earthquake comes less than three months before the start of the Beijing Summer Olympics, when China hopes to use to showcase its rise in the world.

Shanghai's main index inched up Monday, but the advance was capped by worries over inflation and potential damage from the earthquake. Analysts said that shares of companies located in the Sichuan region may fall in coming sessions due to the quake.

It struck in the middle of the afternoon when classes and office towers were full, about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. There were several smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system. The quake affected telephone and power networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.

"In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service," said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.

Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.

"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.

Xinhua said an underground water pipe ruptured near the city's southern railway station, flooding a main thoroughfare. Reporters saw buildings with cracks in their walls but no collapses, Xinhua said.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.

Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the Olympics, which start in August.

"I've lived in Taipei and California and I've been through quakes before. This is the most I've ever felt," said James McGregor, a business consultant who was inside the LG Towers in Beijing's business district. "The floor was moving underneath me."

In Fuyang, 660 miles to the east, chandeliers in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel swayed. "We've never felt anything like this our whole lives," said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu. Patients at the Fuyang People's No. 1 Hospital were evacuated. An hour after the quake, a half-dozen patients in blue-striped pajamas stood outside the hospital. One was laying on a hospital bed in the parking lot. Skyscrapers in Shanghai swayed and most office occupants went rushing into the streets. In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas. The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang. China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people

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[Guest guest]

Dear Thor and List,

 

We can note that in relative population terms, a few thousand is very, very

small compared to the entire population of two billion. So whereas in the

ultimate sense, any such tradgedy is serious, the impact to the nation is

negligible.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Vyas Munidas

 

-

" Cosmologer " <cosmologer

<samva >

Monday, May 12, 2008 9:46 AM

Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000

 

 

Dear friends,

The 28° Scorpio rising chart does not have the classic configuration for an

earthquake, in terms of an affliction to the 4th house or its lord, Saturn.

Moreover, the explanation for this earthquake is quite round about.

First, the chart shows natal Ketu afflicting natal 11th lord Mercury in the

11th house. Moreover, the natal nodes afflict all the odd numbered houses,

including the 11th house, which houses the 10th lord, Sun, the dispositor of

the 4th lord Saturn.

At the present time, transit 11th lord Mercury at 19° Taurus is afflicted by

natal Ketu, while Rahu at 29° Capricorn afflicts the 11th house MEP. Transit

4th lord Saturn is in Leo and the 10th house. Meanwhile, transit 10th lord

Sun is in Aries in the 6th house. Its dispositor is 6th lord Mars. This

planet is both natally and in transit placed in the 9th house. The 9th

house, in turn, is natally afflicted by Rahu in the 5th house and is

presently afflicted by transit Ketu which is conjunct the 9th house MEP.

By comparison, the massive earthquake on July 28, 1976 which caused several

hundered thousand people to lose their lives has a more direct transit

affliction of 4th lord Saturn in the chart.

Best wishes,

Thor

Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

BEIJING - A powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday and state

media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county

while nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed.

The official Xinhua News Agency said 3,000 to 5,000 people had died in

Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake. Another

10,000 people there were believed to be hurt.

The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into

the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was

felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Four of the dead were ninth-grade students killed when their high school

collapsed, Xinhua said. Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble

from the ruined school. Xinhua did not say how many of the students were

feared dead.

It said its reporters in Juyuan township, about 60 miles from the epicenter,

saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of

the three-story building " while others were crying out for help. "

Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had " run

faster than others. "

The earthquake comes less than three months before the start of the Beijing

Summer Olympics, when China hopes to use to showcase its rise in the world.

Shanghai's main index inched up Monday, but the advance was capped by

worries over inflation and potential damage from the earthquake. Analysts

said that shares of companies located in the Sichuan region may fall in

coming sessions due to the quake.

It struck in the middle of the afternoon when classes and office towers were

full, about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. There were several smaller

aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly

overloaded the telephone system. The quake affected telephone and power

networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.

" In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and

thousands of servers were out of service, " said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief

executive officer of China Mobile.

Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen

Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power

and water outages there.

" Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the

streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting, " he

said.

Xinhua said an underground water pipe ruptured near the city's southern

railway station, flooding a main thoroughfare. Reporters saw buildings with

cracks in their walls but no collapses, Xinhua said.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the

north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be

full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.

Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing

the media offices for the organizers of the Olympics, which start in August.

" I've lived in Taipei and California and I've been through quakes before.

This is the most I've ever felt, " said James McGregor, a business consultant

who was inside the LG Towers in Beijing's business district. " The floor was

moving underneath me. "

In Fuyang, 660 miles to the east, chandeliers in the lobby of the Buckingham

Palace Hotel swayed. " We've never felt anything like this our whole lives, "

said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.

Patients at the Fuyang People's No. 1 Hospital were evacuated. An hour after

the quake, a half-dozen patients in blue-striped pajamas stood outside the

hospital. One was laying on a hospital bed in the parking lot.

Skyscrapers in Shanghai swayed and most office occupants went rushing into

the streets.

In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese

coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports

of injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where

some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets

downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after

the quake was felt there.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing

widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.

The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake

killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.

China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city

of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people

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