Gao Li Qiang sent another eye witness account – but not his own. This time it was a friend of his who went into the mountains after the earthquake to see what had happened there. Gao writes the commentary for the following pictures:
The following below pictures were not taken by me – they show another face that we do not see on TV.
This woman pointed to where she just finished her work in the field. On her way home, she saw something she would never forget. It took only one second and the whole village was buried.
She said there is always a chance for people to escape if there was one landslide but this was too sudden, no time for people to do anything to save their lives.
A local villager said this small stream was deep. Now the pile of earth is quite level and the plants don’t look demolished, everything looks that normal. But this pile of earth was not here before. The local villager said that the mountain was like “bombing out” and this earth was thrown here. There was blare coming from inside the earth and then the mountain spurted out red magma several decameters high!
With the eruption a large crack opened and the village fell directly into it.
A young witness said there were several houses still there and people came from the houses running directly to the river. Unfortunately all of them fell into the crevasse. Very soon another toneless blare came out of the earth and the crevice closed.
The trail on this small hill is new. The valley was over 100 meters deep. Now the valley has been filled up with soil. A village has been buried under it.
This was a large flat field of wheat. Now it is covered by one pile of earth that was blasted off the side of that mountain several kilometers away.
Villagers who have been living here since birth cannot find where their houses were located because the land has changed so tremendously.
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