China puts 1 million on evacuation notice in quake zone amid lake-drain plans
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Social workers have helped bring together more than 7,000 children and their families since the earthquake struck Sichuan province May 12, said Ye Lu, director of social welfare at the Sichuan provincial Civil Affairs Department. (article 8)
MIANYANG, China - Chinese authorities prepared on Saturday to drain a swelling lake formed by a devastating earthquake, completing work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands downstream. (article 2)
The lake, called Tangjiashan, formed above Beichuan town in the Mianyang region of Sichuan province when a hillside plunged into a river valley during the May 12 quake. (article 3)
The official death toll from the May 12 quake is 68,977 and is expected to rise, with 17,974 people still missing in remote parts of the southwestern province of Sichuan. (article 1)
About 200,000 people have now been evacuated to higher ground from an area at risk of flooding from a lake formed after the Sichuan earthquake. (article 10)
QINGLIAN, China Tangjiashan Lake rose another 5 feet Thursday, about 70 feet from the top of the wall of rock, dirt and trees that holds the reservoir of river water trapped since the May 12 earthquake devastated northern Sichuan province. (article 7)
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Source articles
- China quake-lake fears ease as angry parents grieve (Washington Post, 05/31/2008, 289 words)
- Chinese prepare to drain ‘quake lake’ (msnbc.msn.com, 05/31/2008, 855 words)
- China puts 1 million on evacuation notice in quake zone amid lake-drain plans (cbc.ca, 05/31/2008, 574 words)
- China says 200,000 evacuated because of flood risk (Washington Post, 05/31/2008, 593 words)
- Chinese officials evacuate quake-hit area threatened by flooding (cbc.ca, 05/31/2008, 196 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/01/2008, 1497 words)
- Rain hinders work on rising lake (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/30/2008, 545 words)
- China says families mostly reunited (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/31/2008, 495 words)
- ABC News: Floods Threaten China; 1.3M May Evacuate (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 365 words)
- 'Quake lake' evacuation continues (BBC News, 05/31/2008, 432 words)
- China: 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless after quake (Washington Post, 05/31/2008, 328 words)
- Japan shelves military aid flight (BBC News, 05/30/2008, 316 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 05/30/2008, 14 words)
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