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Host：central China has been hit by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale. Five children are reported to have died after the tremor brought down buildings of two primary schools. Two powerful aftershocks have also been reported. Well, our environment correspondent Catherine Jacob is here, and Catherine, 7.8 on the Richter scale, isn't this a powerful and significant earthquake?
Catherine：Yes. it certainly is. Because if you consider the Ritcher Scale ranges from nought to 9, obvious 7.8 is fairly high up there. It is as you're saying,
central China, in the Province of Sichuan, and it hit about a hundred kilometers
or less than 60 miles away, from the provincial capital, which is called Chengdu. Now crucially it struck Chinese time at arond half past two in the afternoon.
And of course that means there were a lot of people around on the roads, in
their offices. Little wonder then that the UN Global Disaster alert system has
warned that the impact of this could be very high. As you say, we know that at least 4 children are dead and hundreds injured after two schools collapsed in central china in Chongqing which is next to Sichuan Province. Also the Chinese army have been deployed to try to search survivors and repercussions have been felt far far away from the epicenter, even as far as Beijing, nearly a thousand of miles away.
Host: I mean is this an area known for its earthquake activity?
Catherine: It is. China, generally, is well used to earthquakes. In fact, there was
one in a different province, which was about 7.2 on the Ritcher Scale in March.
However, you can never tell it depends on the timing of course we've said this is early afternoon and did where the epicenter is. This wasn't far from the
provincial capital. lots and lots of people around as far as Being goes.
Buildings there, was said to have trembled for around 2 minutes.
And of course, lots of places are evacuated including the headquarters
of the Olympic Committee there in Beijing. However, from there, anyway, no injury report so far.
Host: wow, and it takes a while (it does),doesn't it? for us to hit a full extent of the damage.How accessible is the region?
Catherine：well, it's fairly sparsely populated generally, but the authorities there do say,
the Chinese army have been deployed to try to access the scale of the situation. As you say, in this kind of case, the report's dribbling, don't they? But we do know, so far
at least four children dead after those two schools collapsed in the
Sichuan province and the army on their way to trying to find out exactly
how big the disaster this is.
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主持人：中国的中部四川遭受了里氏7.8级的大地震。据报道有两所小学的5名儿童被震后倒塌的房屋砸死。随后两次强烈的余震也已经被报道。好，现在我们的环境特派员Catherine Jacob在这。Catherine里氏7.8级地震是一场惊天动地的大地震吗？
Catherine：是的，当然。如果你试想下，里氏等级的最高值还不到9，你就会发现很显然那里发生的7.8级地震等级是相当高的。如你刚刚所说，地震发生在中国中部的四川省，震中离四川省会成都不到60英里，也就是大约100多公里。地震发生于北京时间下午2点半左右。很显然意味着当时有很多人在路上或他们的办公室。几乎没人知道当时美国国家环球灾害中心预警系统已经发出了预警称这次地震的破坏力可能相当高。像你所说，我们知道至少已有4名儿童死亡，数以百计的人在重庆（重庆市中国中部靠近四川省的一座城市）两所学校倒塌事故中受伤。同时中国军队已经整装出发尽可能搜寻震后的幸存者，包括10000多英里外的北京很多远离震中的地方都可以感觉到强烈的震感。
主持人：我意思是还有没有什么地方因为地震而被人所知。
Catherine:有的。在中国，其实经常有地震发生。在另一个省4月份也发生了里氏7.2级的地震。然而你很难单从时间上加以辨别当然刚刚我们说了地震发生在下午早些时候以及震中的位置-那里离省会不远。周围远至北京的大量民众称感到了大约2分钟的地震。与此同时包括位于北京的奥委会指挥部等一大批机构被撤出北京。不过，从那边传来的消息称，至今还没有受伤的报道。
主持人：喔～还需要些时间不是吗，使得我们能更全方位的了解这场灾难。现在这个区域通行了吗。
Catherine：恩，相当少的人住在那里，但是当地政府称，解放军已经出发赶赴受灾位置，如你所说，对于这种事情报道也很难特别清楚，不是吗？但至少我们知道，最少已经有4名孩子在四川省两所学校的倒塌中丧生，而部队也在尽力搜寻，努力搞清这次灾难到底有多大规模。
相关报道：
12日下午，在突如其来的地震中，都江堰市聚源镇聚源中学一栋教学楼垮塌，部分学生被埋，已知有4人死亡。当地有关部门正在紧急抢救。记者在现场看到，三层楼的教学楼大部分垮塌，5台黄色大吊车正在紧张挖掘救援。一辆救护车风驰电掣般驶进事发现场。一些学生家长焦急万分地守在废墟现场，有的号啕大哭。4名学生尸体停放在学校操场上。据守护的学生介绍，死者为两男、两女，都是初中三年级学生。 据当地村民称，在这里上课的有初二、初三的18个班，每班约50人左右，地震时，有部分学生逃出，其他人都被埋压在废墟中。 聚源镇中心中学全校师生共1800多人，其中学生1700多人。 初三5班学生张成伟的母亲已经泣不成声，她儿子还被压在废墟下面，生死不明。 截至17时40分，当地部门和村民已经抢救出数十名学生。记者在现场看到，有些被埋压的学生身体还在动，同时能听到被埋学生的呼救声。
记者从重庆市有关部门了解到，12日下午四川汶川地震造成重庆梁平县两所小学垮塌，其中，文化镇小学学生死亡5人，另有19名师生仍被掩埋在废墟中。目前，重庆梁平县礼让镇中心小学和文化镇小学校舍垮塌累计造成5名学生死亡，约120名学生受伤，其中2名学生重伤。到记者发稿时，19名被掩埋的师生仍未发现。
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