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Juan Zeng, the English teacher in Chengdu who wrote us a long report on how her students walked out of the death zone from Qingcheng Mountain has sent me another report. It is a little dated when we count by hour or even minute after the earthquake. She told me that she feels the need to express what she is experienceing and she doesn’t know who she should talk to. We didn’t edit her post and she is not a journalist. Her narration could show you a different picture of the earthquake from main stream media. -Min Guo

People were suffering after the earthquake.

It was 15th of May, at night, in Sichuan Technology University Chengdu Arts College(四川理工成都美术学院)。I think by then, we should call the end of the first stage of the earthquake, although the aftershock comes on and off all the time.

It is 10a.m., in the anti—earthquake center of my college, where I ran into my students. (more…)

A groundswell of information is being shared and produced about the devastating Sichuan earthquake yesterday that hit south-west China near Chengdu, Sichuan. Coverage all over the place but check IfGogo.com, Shanghaiist, Danwei, GlobalVoices. If you are on Twitter, you can follow the people that account ChinaList follows and that’s a start at tapping into some of the people in China. Or you can use Summize to search Twitter for the term: 地震 or earthquake. People’s Daily coverage here and reports Premier Wen heading out to the affected region. CNN reports 3,000 dead, 900 buried in quake, according to Xinhua.

Other CNReviews coverage: China earthquake donation guide

Photo on Sina (h/t fuzheado)

IfGoGo also provided many photos on the Sichuan earthquake.

IfGoGo.com provided many images about the 7.8 Sichuan earthquake. Above image of “people in Sichuan (maybe) from Hainei.com. (more…)