10,000 dead!!! And donno how many more.....Is India Prepared???

Really sad whats happened in china..but is India prepared for a calamity??Does the Indian government have the infrastructure to handle stuff like this??Are our buildings strong enough to take earthquakes of such scale??

The answers sadly to the above questions is NO!!!Its time our government gets ready with an emergency handling team not only on paper but also in actual physical existence.The Earths playing games with volcanoes erupting in Chile to earthquakes in China to cyclones in Myanmar!! We r not far away from one such one hitting our country.Its time we actively take part in Disaster Management..Times runnin out!!Lets make the move before its too late..Hopefully we'll be ready in the NICK OF TIME!!

Below are some of the pics and details abt the Earthquake that struck China.









The death toll in China's worst earthquake in three decades hit at least 10,000 people Tuesday, but was expected to soar amid reports of staggering numbers of students trapped in collapsed schools.

Rescuers also were scrambling to reach the cut-off epicenter of the Monday's earthquake, which struck central Sichuan province but killed people in at least eight other areas of China.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that nearly 10,000 people died in Sichuan alone and 300 others in other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing.

It said 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing after the 7.9-magnitude earthquake crushed a high school in Beichuan county, just east of the quake's epicenter. The deaths were separate from another collapsed school where 900 students are feared dead.

said up to 5,000 people were killed and 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan, in a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan's provincial capital of Chengdu. The government has poured more than 16,000 troops into the area with tens of thousands more on the way.

Rain was complicating the rescue effort, which Premier Wen Jiabao said was forecast for the next several days. Wen, who flew to Sichuan to oversee rescue efforts, said a push was on to clear roads and restore electricity as soon as possible.

The quake's epicenter was in Wenchuan, 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Chengdu, but landslides, boulders and downed trees blocked roads into the area.

Xinhua reported that efforts to reach Wenchuan and surrounding areas by land, water and air has failed so far. Rains had not made it possible to land helicopters, and police have even been sent by boat in a local reservoir