The Sichuan Provience earth quake was a 7.9 magnitute earthquake. More than 50,000 died. The Chinese military and Japanese Earthquake squad is rescueing as much as possibe. Many without a home and family. This earthquake was handled better than Hurricane Katrina because President Hu and Prime Minister Wen Jai Bao both told everybody that we need as many people as possible to rescue people out of Debris.
In Hurricane Katrina, President Brush did not land there, but flew over. Never again will a natural disaster be handled worse than the Chinese government. Nver again.
Then at the end of four hours of the earhtquake, rescue teams, military soldiers, professional medicare , and Prime minister Wen is there. China moved extremely quickly.
They can move quickly and safely to rescue people and if some does happen at the Olympics , then China will have people rescueing by 30minutes because the OLympics is in the Capital. Four hours for the earthquake is two hours for the flight and 2 for begining speech and recueation The Chinese Government including President Hu said this is a race against time. They did A wonderful job and I hope they contiue their excellent progress.