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900 schoolchildren buried in Chinese earthquake | The Courier-Mail
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From the page: "A death toll in the tens of thousands was feared last night after a powerful earthquake flattened schools and homes in densely populated areas of southwestern China.

"The quake, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, struck just before 2.30pm ... about 92 km from Chengdu, a city of more than 12 million people."

I've been to this region and the slopes are very sttep, making landslides very likely.
See oak.ucc.nau.edu/wittke/Tibet/Longmen.html [oak.ucc.nau.edu/wittke/Tibet/Longmen.html] .

Also reported here and here.