I'm sure everyone has heard of the Siuchan Earthquke as most of the people here are from China. It's been about 10 days since the earthquake and over 40,000 people have currently been pronounced dead. Also about 200 rescue workers died a few days ago because of mudslide when trying to save people trapped under bricks and stone. It's hard for the soldiers to rescue the people because of all the destruction the earthquake caused. There must be billions of dollars of structuaral damage because of the earthquake, which was incredibly strong that it was felt for I think 10 different countries. The power of the earthquake on the Richter Scale is 7.9 which is one of the highest amounts behind 8.0 on a certain scale, thankfully it was not a 10, which is an advanced Richter Scale, as it would be like a force of a small asteroid hitting the country, which would probably be enough to cause buildings all over the country to be damaged and buildings in other countries as well. There was 3 days of mourning in China for the people who died. At first it was only a little over 10,000 casualties but now over 40,000. The Red Cross has given about over $800,000 U.S. dollars and over $100,000 U.S. dollars in equipment.

I donated money to the Earthquake Releif Fund last week. There have been thousands of people donating money to China, from all different countries.Several websites from major foreign aid agencies like the Red Cross have been donating thousands to millions of dollars to help find the survivors and repair the major destruction. It's a good thing that the Olympics are being held in China because at least the funds from tourists coming to view the Olympics will make up for some of the structural losses, too bad they can't fix the lives ruined by this disaster.