The Great Sichuan Earthquake

chinadigitaltimes.net     May 16, 2008            

In the Far Eastern Economic Review, Michael Zhao reports on the role of information technology in spreading breaking news about the earthquake: In the moments following the quake, the world’s source of breaking news on the disaster was neither the Chinese government nor the Western media. As the... [read full story]                

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MIKE WENDLAND: Chinese citizen journalists share earthquake stories on Web

freep.com     May 13, 2008          

China has learned citizen journalism fast, with video and news about the massive earthquake that hit Monday posted across the Internet. Indeed, the first news of the quake — scooping all the regular media outlets — came from Twitter, the life-sharing text message site where dozens of users were...                

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Citizen Journalists Play Important Role in Reporting on Chinese Earthquake

digitaljournal.com     May 13, 2008          

Digital Journal -- Officials in China say the death toll after yesterday's quake is nearing 12,000, roads are cluttered with people and rubble from fallen buildings and rescuers work around the clock to find victims. In an interesting development for communist China, citizen journalists are being...                

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Did animals predict China's earthquake?

newsvine.com     May 15, 2008          

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu May 15, 2008 2:35 PM EDT First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting...                

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Chinese Community Center takes action following earthquake

capitalnews9.com     May 15, 2008          

LATHAM, N.Y. -- The images of the devastating earthquake earlier this week in China have flooded television screens around the world. For those in the states who have direct ties to the region, the tragedy is particularly hard to take. But it has inspired action among the local Chinese...                

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Chinese Intellectuals Contemplate on Earthquake: Lessons We Are Learning

chinadigitaltimes.net     May 16, 2008          

Southern Metropolitan News published messages from several dozen Chinese columnists, scholars, and social workers comptemplating on the devastating Sichuan earthquake. Several of them compared the government’s openness during the current earthquake with its hiding of information during Tangshan...                

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Bush offers Chinese president earthquake aid

tampabays10.com     May 16, 2008          

Washington, D.C.- President Bush has spoken by phone with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the powerful earthquake that hit central China. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president expressed his condolences on the thousands of deaths in the quake and offered to assist where possible....                

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Superstition meets the Web, stinging Chinese authorities

iht.com     May 16, 2008          

Can earthquakes be predicted, their destructive impact forewarned? The claim has been largely debunked, but that has not stopped the spread of rumors and tall tales, some of which are proving nettlesome to the ruling Communist Party as it grapples with China's most calamitous disaster in a...                

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Scientists dismiss claims animals, clouds provided quake warning

people.com.cn     May 16, 2008          

Neither the migration of toads nor unusual cloud formations were clear indicators of an impending earthquake, the country's seismological authority said yesterday. According to some media reports, forecasters ignored the warning signs, such as the mass migration of toads in Mianzhu, just three...                

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Idaho couple survives Chinese earthquake

ktvb.com     May 16, 2008          

BOISE - A Caldwell couple is living in a temporary home in China after theirs was destroyed by this week's earthquake. Thad Ross and his wife Michelle are in the midst of this destruction. They are with the Peace Corps and have lived in China for two years. Before the earthquake they were...                

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7,500 Miles From Home, Chinese Teacher Offers Earthquake Relief

news4jax.com     May 16, 2008          

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Xu Lei, one of five Chinese teachers in Jacksonville for a year, is desperate to get all the information she can about the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that rocked her homeland. "Every time I saw those pictures, I have tears in my eyes," Xu said. While her classroom is in the...                

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