Sort by Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008 - YouTube
Sichuan University student takes video at 2:29pm in dorm. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake shook Wenchuan County, Sichuan province of the People's Republic...
Sort by Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008
Want to know what that giant earthquake in China's remote Sichuan looked like? Better yet, want to know what it's like to experience a 7.8 magnitude quake? Someone claiming to be a Sichuan University student posted the following video to Tudou ( SAI 25 #22 ), where it's No. 2 on the homepage, and it was reposted on YouTube. The video (58,713 YouTube views so far) shows interminable shaking, creaking...
Sort by Broadcasting Ourselves (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008
According to the Chinese state media, there are nearly 600 million cell phone users today in China, resulting in a corps of citizen journalists equipped with the technology to give eyewitness accounts without a moment's notice. Last week's devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province produced an enormous number of photos and videos uploaded by Chinese on their mobile devices. Users documented...
Sort by A Welsh View (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008
Footage of the Chinese earthquake as it happened. [via]
Sort by Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) - 05/13/2008
Sichuan University student takes video at 2:29pm in dorm.
Sort by NewTeeVee (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008
The devastating earthquake in China today is just the latest crisis to showcase YouTube’s role as a primary source of firsthand accounts of breaking news. Last year, the video-sharing site gave us glimpses of the wildfires burning in southern California and of pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar. Now a video shot by a student shows us [...]
Sort by Venture Chronicles (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008
Watching this video took me back to 1989… it's amazing how time slows down in an earthquake, the Loma Prieta quake was maybe 20 seconds in duration but as is the case with today's quake in China, it felt like 20 minutes at the time.
Sort by Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) - 05/13/2008
A strong earthquake in Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province has rocked China on May 12, 2008. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale according to China’s State Seismological Bureau was felt in the thousands-kilometers-away provinces or regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hongkong, and Taiwan among others. The powerful earthquake killed at over 10,000 [...]
Sort by Dave Porter Weblog (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008
Western China is still digging out from the 7.9 earthquake that hit on 5/12. Time is running out for anyone still alive under rubble. I can think of no greater horror that could come into my life than to stand-by,...
