This is a compilation made on 5.19.2008 for the Chinese 3 minute silence that took place at 2:28pm. People and traffic paused in remembrance of the innocent victims.

WENCHUAN, China — China stood still Monday in mourning over tens of thousands of earthquake victims, and the government appealed for more international aid to cope with the country's deadliest disaster in a generation.

Construction workers, shopkeepers and bureaucrats across the bustling nation of 1.3 billion people paused for three minutes at 2:28 p.m. _ exactly one week after the magnitude 7.9 quake hit central China.

Air-raid sirens and the horns of cars and buses sounded in memory of the dead.

In Beijing's Tiananmen Square, thousands of people bowed their heads and then began shouting "Long Live China!" and thrusting their fists in the air. Traffic on the capital's highways and roads stopped, and some drivers got out of their cars.

The confirmed death toll from the May 12 quake rose to 34,073, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said Monday. Another 9,500 remained buried in Sichuan and more than 29,000 were missing, the provincial government said, according to Xinhua.

Officials have said they expect final death toll to exceed 50,000, with more than 245,000 reported as injured. Quake-related losses to companies totaled $9.5 billion, Deputy Industry Minister Xi Guohua said.


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[2008/05/12] - Magnitude 7.8 in China, taken back by a security camera...

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SCTV 4 News (in Sichuan): http://wwitv.com/a1/b3686.asx

(Update) Chinese earthquake death toll jumps to 80,000

China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors. The confirmed number of dead rose to 51,151, up almost 10,000 from the day before, Cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin told a news conference. Another 29,328 people remained missing and nearly 300,000 were hurt in the May 12 quake centered in Sichuan province, he said...

Leggi:
http://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/22-05-2008/105295-ear thquake-0

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http://www.ifrc.org/
Earthquake Hits Western China
The extent of the devastation in China, after an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck, is still being realised. Environment correspondent Catherine Jacob reports
http://www.redcross.org/news/in/profiles/Intl_profile_ChinaE arthquake.html
China praises world's quake aid
The final death toll is expected to reach at least 50,000
Chinese President Hu Jintao has voiced his gratitude for the international aid following Monday's massive earthquake.
"I express heartfelt thanks to the foreign governments and international friends," Mr Hu was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Offers of help in the relief effort from home and abroad have now surpassed $800m, Chinese officials say.
The number of confirmed deaths of the quake in the south-western Sichuan province has now risen to 28,881.
More than 10,600 people are believed to be still trapped, Xinhua said, citing regional officials.
The final death toll following the 7.9-magnitude quake is expected to reach at least 50,000 people, Chinese officials estimate