Earthquake(or aftershock) strikes Sichuan again at 16:31, Aug 1st

A friend in Chengdu told me that another earthquake had just happened there and the shaking lasted for about 1 mintue!

Here's a general translation of his Fanfou(A twitter like service in Chinese)

  • 还在摇 11 分钟前 通过 GTalk 分享
    It's still shaking. 11 Minutes ago, via Gtalk
  • 有点大 11 分钟前 通过 GTalk 分享
    A little strong 11 Minutes ago, via Gtalk
  • 地震 12 分钟前 通过 GTalk 分享
    Earthquake 12 Minutes ago, via Gtalk
  • 地震 12 分钟前(2008-08-01 16:33) 通过 GTalk 分享
    Earthquake 12 Minutes ago, via Gtalk

There have already been a couple of aftershocks and this one seems to be one of the biggest.

I really hope the people in Sichuan could be all safe. Everyone, every life!

FYI: Sichuan of China on the map, via Wikipedia:

16:21, Aftershock or major quake?

About half an hour ago (May 25th, 16:21), a friend in Xianyang Shaanxi told me that there was another quake, and all the people ran out of the buildings. Then I checked the SINA.com and saw there were another "aftershock" in west of Sichuan.

Now, the "Wenchuan Earthquake" had caused 62,664 deaths as of 12:00 AM. Sunday. The "aftershock", or even another major quake is just like a "fuel to the flames".

As far as I know, this "aftershock" is located in Qingzhou (via this Chinese page of SINA.com), I will update some news from my friends then. Good luck to the Sichuan people!

Until now, still no English updates for this aftershock as far as I know. Maybe there would be some from english.sina.com.

Update: This aftershock caused one more death and 260+ injuries, including 24 severe injuries.

Please take a look at these pictures.

The crying woman was trying to find her loved ones in the debris. in Mianyang county, Sichuan Province, more than 18 thousand people were trapped under the wreckage.

Parents are looking for their kids body on the playground. In Juyuan School, Dujiangyan County, Sichuan province. more than 300 kids were killed when the building collapsed

crying parents with their loved kids. their children were killed when the teaching building collapsed.

Please! Please help my kid!! He is still alive!!! The crying mother shouted.

Please help me get out of here...... I am still alive.....

When premier Wen saw hundreds of kids were killed by collapsed building, he cried without any words. During the earthquake, there are hundred and hundred kids were killed or were still trapped under those topple buildings.

Please please help those people, just do what you can do. Let's pray for those who suffered in the earthquake!~ Please donate for those people via: http://www.ifgogo.com/80/how-to-donate/

How to donate for Sichuan China in the earthquake

How to donate

Note: This table is only applicable for using foreign currency/people living out of China. If you are currently living in China or you can speak Chinese, please use Google or other search engines to locate your local red cross agencies. Junyu from Google also wrote a post on that (in Chinese). You can either donate some money or contribute in other forms.

As I only collect the information from web according to the best of my knowledge, please verify any information you get from the web twice before donation, especially the destination bank account number and swift code.

Update by Aw: You may also want to donate via Google.com.

Quick tips:

If you want to donate via credit card: Go to method 3, 5, 6, 7

If you want to donate via check, go to method 1, 10

If you can do wire transfer quickly, go to method 2, 3, 4

If you want to donate to some NGO that you can trust, go to method 8, 9, 10

If you want to donate via paypal, go to method 8, 9, 10

If you can read Chinese or if you are in HK, go to method 5, 6

If you are in United States and near New York, you can use Method 1.

If you've head of some NGO/Forums like bullog or mitbbs, go to their corresponding web pages. Method 8 and 9 provides the quick link.

Official Agencies:

Method 1

Organization: Chinese Consulate General in New York
Write a Check to Chinese Consulate General in New York.

Pay to the order of: "Chinese Consulate General in New York"

For "Earthquake Relief Donation"

Mail to "Liu Lei,520 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036"

Please leave your name, addr and zip code/tel so that we can connect you with receipts

Phone number: 212-244-9392 ext. 1000.

Website(In Chinese): http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/ttxw/t434163.htm

Method 2.

Organization: Chinese Red Cross

Wiring transfer to

Bank Info: CHINA CITI BANK H.O.IN BEIJING, SWIFT:CIBKCNBJ

Account Number: 7112-1114-8260-0000-209

Website http://redcross.org.cn (In Chinese)

Tel 011-86-10-65139999, 64027620

Method 3.

Organization: Chinese Red Cross FOUNDATION

Bank Info: BANK OF CHINA, BEIJING BR., SWIFT:BKCHCNBJ110

Account Number: 8001-0008-6608-0910-14
Website: www.crcf.org.cn

You can also use IE browser to access
http://www.crcf.org.cn/gb/jianjie/jkindex.asp

via your credit card.
You can get the information about your donation at
http://www.crcf.org.cn/gb/jianjie/jkindex.asp

Method 4

Organization: China Charity

Bank Info: BANK OF CHINA,H.O.IN BEIJING, SWIFT:BKCHCNBJ

Account Number 0010-0914-9080-9101-4

Website: http://www.chinacharity.cn/wzdefaultservlet (Chinese)

Method 5

Organization: Red Cross In HK

Online donation Website: www.redcross.org.hk

Method 6

Oxfam HK

Online donation website

https://www.oxfam.org.hk/public/donate/donate?donate_id=45

Other Organizations:

Method 7

MercyCorps China Earth Quake relief.

Donate on line via credit card.
Website: http://www.mercycorps.org/chinaearthquake/?source=1062

Method 8

Bullog, a famous right-wing web forum in China, founded by Yonghao Luo.

Donate via paypal.
Website: http://www.bullog.cn/blogs/liuyanban/archives/136782.aspx (In Chinese)

Method 9

MitBBS via paypal

Website: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/sysop/31168784.html

Pay to: contactmitbbs@gmail.com
ATTN: Chinese earthquake relief.

For paypal. You don't need a bank account to operate, just use paypal (If you know what it is). Note that MITBBS/Bullog are both popular and high-ranked BBSs among Chinese community, they are doing everything they can do to help the victims in the earthquake, but keep in mind that they are not a non-profit/tax free agency. [If you want a tax-exempt receipt. this might not be a good choice]

Method 10

SVNT, a non-profit organization registered in California with IRS 501 (c)
(3) status. We will publish all transactions of donations online. All
donations will be 100% transferred to China Red Cross.
(Unverified by me, but many Chinese have donated through this)

Via Bank Transfer:

Bank name: Washington Mutual
Payee title: SVTN (special fund for earthquake relief)
Routing #: 322271627
Acct #: 3170415745

Address:
690 RIVER OAKS PKWY
SAN JOSE, CA 95134-1905

Or by check:

Pay to: SVTN
For: China Earthquake Relief

Mail to: P. O. Box 1295
Fremont, CA 94538-0129
USA

Or Paypal: tsinghua_foundation@yahoo.com
Pay to China Earthquake Relief.

View Sichuan earthquake with Google Maps

Added by Aw:

Hidecloud and me are very busy and very tired since this earthquake. The information are being editing and will be post later. If you want to know more, you may take a read at all this post:

Earthquake strikes in China, survived from 15th floor (Video) - Please Digg it if you like. Thanks

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I'm in Chongqing (formerly part of Sichuan) which 330km from today's earthquake's source.I'm fine now.

after some panic times, i marked today's earthquake-sources on Google Earth.Then published it to Google Maps.

You can have a look with this image:

or you can simply click on this link to view the details.

I'll update if any new earthquake happens.