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The article is about how china had a devastating earthquake. The quake was a 7.9 magnitude.
The china earthquake caused 69,016 deaths, 368,545 injuries, 18,830 missing, and 15,147,400 evacuated. The hospital had treated 91,762 injured survivors as of Sunday noon of whom 61,597 were discharged. A total of 191 aftershocks were detected.
Donation from home and abroad to the quake-hit regions had reached 41.5 billion Yuan. About 11.5 billion in cash and relief materials had been forwarded to the earthquake attected areas. Meanwhile, 448,140 tents had been delivered, said Lu Guangjin, an official with the office. Also, 35,458 makeshift houses, 2,419,347 quilts and 3,304,526 garments had been sent to the region, he said. About 336,000 tons of fuel and 723,000 tons of coal were sent to the region as well, he noted. The whole line of quake-damaged Baoji-Chengdu railway, a key north-south route in west China, which links Chengdu with Baoji city in neighboring Shaanxi Province, reopened to traffic Saturday after 283 hours of closure, allowing batch transport of disaster relief goods to Sichuan.
Water poured from a brimming lake formed by China's massive earthquake down a manmade spillway Tuesday, as towns downstream went on alert for possible flooding should the unstable dam burst. 40 percent of homes in the town of Qingyi were at risk while the city of Mianyang, where residents have been practicing evacuation drills, was on alert. Flood water seeped into riverside houses in the largely evacuated town of Qinglian, a resident who remained in the area said."Everybody feels lucky that it didn't submerge the streets and the neighborhood," said Wu Zhenxing.For days, troops had been using dynamite and anti-tank weapons to blast boulders and other obstacles in a diversion canal, trying to speed the flow of water and relieve pressure on the lake's unstable mud and rock dam.It wasn't immediately clear, however, whether engineers could control the flow and prevent a breach that would cause severe flooding downstream. More than 250,000 people downstream have already moved to high ground due to concerns the barrier holding back the lake could breach entirely. About 1.3 million people total live downstream.

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