Aftershocks

Couple bad things about earthquakes, 1. they are unpredictable and 2. they have aftershocks and a sizable one recently hit China.

The tremor, the strongest aftershock since the May 12 earthquake, hit Jiangyou city in Sichuan, Xinhua state news agency said, on the eve of three days of national mourning for the dead that now stands officially at 32,500.

The fresh tremor, which measured 5.7 in magnitude, brought down a large number of houses, damaged 235 miles of roads and six bridges, rescue authorities said late on Sunday.

They’re not done with the damage from the first quake. Stuff like this is the hardest.

Dozens of schools collapsed in the area, crushing to death thousands of children taking classes at the time. Officials pulled out more bodies from the wreckage of the local primary school in Beichuan on Sunday. Forty-one corpses were laid out in front of the school.

Just tragic and it keeps getting worse, will anyway. Not as bad as Burma thou.

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