Powerful Aftershock Kills 8 In China

71,000 More Homes Destroyed In Devastated Sichuan Province; Even More Demand For Housing

(CBS/AP)  Nerves were on edge Monday in China's quake-devastated Sichuan province after a powerful aftershock Sunday destroyed tens of thousands of homes.

On Monday, China's cabinet saidthe death toll in the aftershock had risen to eight, including deaths in neighboring provinces. More than 480 others were injured.

The magnitude 6.0 aftershock was among the most powerful recorded since the initial May 12 quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The China National Seismic Network said the aftershock was the strongest of dozens in the nearly two weeks after the disaster.

Xinhua said 71,000 homes that survived the original quake were leveled, and another 200,000 were in danger of collapse from the aftershock that caused office towers to sway in Beijing, 800 miles away. Xinhua did not give any details on whether the houses were occupied or how it arrived at the figure.

Meanwhile, soldiers set to work Monday trying to unblock a debris-clogged river threatening to flood homeless survivors from the earthquake that ravaged the central province two weeks ago.

The 1,800 soldiers marched into the new Tangjiashan lake in Beichuan county, carrying 22 pounds of explosives each to blast through the debris, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The soldiers arrived early Monday at the lake - formed by a massive landslide rocked loose by China's worst earthquake in three decades - "and immediately began work to defuse the danger of a major flooding," it said.

The lake is 2 miles upstream from the main center in Beichuan county.

CBS News reporter Celia Hatton says 20,000 people have already been evacuated from the area downstream from the lake, and if the heavy rain continues, that number could rise to 100,000.

Xinhua said the soldiers "planned to blast away the landslide barrier." It did not give any details.

State television showed pictures of a military helicopter flying a big earth mover into the area.

Hatton reports that many of the thousands being displaced for fear that Tangjiashan lake could inundate the area were people who had managed to stick out the original disaster in their villages. Their upheaval now will place a huge new burden on the government, which is already struggling to find shelter for thousands of others.

One person who lost his home to the Sunday aftershock was 36 year-old villager Yu Xiongjun, who was collecting food and water from a government distribution center in Qifo in northern Sichuan's Qingchuan county.

He and four other family members have been living in a tent in the mountains since the earthquake two weeks ago damaged their home. The aftershock destroyed the home.

"Now, no one can live on the mountain, it is impossible. All five of us were scared after the aftershock and stayed up all night," Yu said as he put a 55-pound bag of rice into a bamboo basket he had strapped to his back.

The Cabinet said Monday the confirmed death toll from the disaster had risen to 65,080, with more than 23,775 more people missing. The death toll was up about 2,500 from the previous day. Premier Wen Jiabao has already said the number of dead could surpass 80,000.

The government is also struggling to house the millions left homeless in the earthquake. It has made an international appeal for tents.

In Dujiangyan near the provincial capital of Chengdu, engineers were preparing a site Monday where prefabricated housing for 1,000 people will be put up.

The white buildings with blue metal roofs will provide 86 square feet of housing for one family.

"The most important thing is getting people into temporary housing and stabilizing the health and hygiene situation," said Zhang Haibo, a health inspector from Shandong province in eastern China.

A new tent camp is also being built in nearby Juyuan. A string of 120 tents will be set up in a field. The tent camp is across a river from the rubble of the Juyuan high school, where more than 270 students died.

[tootall10142]

Thats eight more down ,1.5 billion more to go.lets send th ekids some toys laced in lead or poison thier pet food with tainted gluten,and around dinner time tomorrow maybe sevral more million wiil drop dead.sympathy is found in dictionary between sh










































































































































































































































Thats eight more down 1.5 billion to go .lets send them some tanted meds. or some leadlaced toys for thier kids.maybe a little tainted animal feed and around dinner or doggie time tom.maybe we rid this planet of some more.sympathyis in found in dictionary betwwen sh-t and syphillis.

[floydzeppl]

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[agog2]

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[xjtu-2009]

marizara, thank you.
What is the reality? Though i am not in Sichuan province in the center of the earthquake and i live in Xi''an, far away from Wenchuan, i felt the shake yesterday afternoon and ran out of the house with my friends, to see a lot of people running out of their house gathering in the street. we were afraid of the possible colapse of the building. Luckily, i am all right now.
You may doubt or oppugn what the national media says, just like many chinese people do now. China is heading to a democary country, and critisizing too much will arise nationalism emotion which may slow down this progress. Negro got their voting rithts after the 15th Amendment to the Constitution passed about 100 years later than the US''s independence. It is a long progress. ironically some american people, who critised china''s human rights , pay little attention to the large number of death and the millions of homeless people. You may bet for who will win the nomination ,Hillary or Obama, while we are in deep sorrow and pain.
I am praying for the death and hope the surviors come back to their normal lives.
And *** tibetan separatism!you''re b~i~t~c~h!!

[salty1954]

Dear China,

Payback is a b~i~t~c~h!
Signed,
Tibet

[ringading3]

I don''t trust the leaders of China, and I don''t believe half of the news about this earthquake.

[user168-2009]

To the people of China: -- No matter what our governments do, please understand that the American people are sharing your grief. -- We are holding your hands, and saying prayers for your lost children, and for your survivors. -- We hope that you will all be safe from harm, and will have normal lives again soon. -- Thanks to the Internet and the news networks, we can tell you about how we feel. -- With all the problems in our world, I feel that this is a great privilege.

Posted by marizara at 09:37 AM : May 25, 2008

Thank you marizara for your leadership. Every country has had her share of pain and devastation caused by natural disasters and that tells us we are all just one people on earth, looking after one another. This time, I have decided to give graduation and birthday gifts in terms of donations to the earthquake victims.

As Obama puts it, "I am my brother''s keeper. I am my sister''s keeper."

[soshljustic]

"To the people of China: -- No matter what our governments do, please understand that the American people are sharing your grief. -- We are holding your hands, and saying prayers for your lost children, and for your survivors. -- We hope that you will all be safe from harm, and will have normal lives again soon. -- Thanks to the Internet and the news networks, we can tell you about how we feel. -- With all the problems in our world," I too believe this is a "great privilege" which allows hearts and minds to breach continental divides,oceans, and political upheavals. Please hear us people of China, we care and support you, in your turmoil and grief we wish we could help,it is awful,horrifying to sit and watch your struggle and tears, we are crying for your familial losses too!!!If I could I would wrap my arms around your nation to protect you from further calamity, burning many reams of paper monies to your families laid to rest under the rubble of progress,your only children gone,and change the policy from one child to two, to bloom love in the household filled with the laughter of children, there is enough rice to feed everyone,enough vegetables from the yellow earth to provide for all.Take Care and Aloha.

[me4prezz]

I am praying for the people of China and hope that these aftershocks and the accompanying damage and deaths and other horrible things soon stop and the recovery efforts and rebuilding can soon begin without further threats.

But, to CBS news, I only have one comment. This new aftershock killed one, but the opening paragraph of this article states "causing hundreds of new casualties Sunday"....there was 1 casualty. Why make a horrible situation seem more dire than it is already with false reporting?

[Marie Zarankevich]

To the people of China: -- No matter what our governments do, please understand that the American people are sharing your grief. -- We are holding your hands, and saying prayers for your lost children, and for your survivors. -- We hope that you will all be safe from harm, and will have normal lives again soon. -- Thanks to the Internet and the news networks, we can tell you about how we feel. -- With all the problems in our world, I feel that this is a great privilege.