Just a quick note to put up a clearinghouse for some of the best news sources for information on the Chengdu Earthquake. We should probably be calling this the Wenchuan (汶川) Earthquake, but for the sake of the googlers, I’ll keep both placenames on the title and in the tags. Newest updates are on the top.

Updates 5/14

• Via EastSouthWestNorth
  • The HK Apple Daily has more musings on the omen side of things.  Article in Chinese and translation over at ESWN
  • They also have a fairly good roundup of the most moving earthquake-related photos- Some of the photo links seem to be dying, but most are still good
• Via Danwei.org
  • Newsweek’s blog has an interesting piece on the Chinese media - state and ‘independent’ and their newfound apparent ability to be more transparent and active
  • The entertainingly named “Hugh Jorgen” of the Zhongnanhai blog is much less impressed with the CCTV coverage.

Updates 5/13 1:08 pm PST

• New York Times’ The Lede blog discusses briefly the discontent in China about the overly celebratory images of the Olympic Torch immediately after the earthquake. (Via China Digital Times)

• Again, Shanghaiist seems to have the best roundup in English.
• One of the themes that is coming out of this that Shanghaiist among others ferrets out is the anger that is being expressed toward local governments for the assumed corruption that led to shoddy ‘tofu buildings.’ The Guardian has a representative piece
• Danwei.org has an interesting article about possible warnings from nature - including the bizarre frog exodus that was covered (again) over at Shanghaiist.
• Some, the Warrior Lawyer among them, are talking about the Tangshan Earthquake of ‘76 and the Mandate of Heaven. Even Time Magazine published about omens regarding the Myanmar cyclone before the earthquake hit.
• Some interesting thoughtfulness on the role of twitter yesterday by Digitalwatch
• Via Imagethief, the Olympic torch will still run through Sichuan
• A slide show of Reuters images from the Australian. (some fairly graphic)
• As much as I dislike CNN’s “iReport” shtick, they’ve got some interesting images and videos here’s their tag for Earthquake, and here’s China

Updated5/12 9:01 PST

• Xinhua is trying to repair my opinion of them by putting up a site in English with updates.
• National Public Radio’s Robert Seigal and Melissa Block are actually in Chengdu doing some good reporting.
  • A terrifying audio clip of a very cool and collected Melissa Block in-progress interview when the earthquake hits.
    • Click on “Listen: The sound of the earthquake in progress, recorded by Melissa Block” (it hits at about 40 seconds into the interview)
      
  • Chengdu Diary
• Sina.com has a page for minute-by-minute updates (in Chinese)
• Global Voices has another good update and list of links
• Here’s a Chinese Forum with some more photos - Beware, there are a few gruesome ones there.
• Shanghaiist - good regular updates
• Twitter feeds - Good stuff coming out in English from a few regulars
  • inwalkedbud - In Chengdu
  • Kaiserkuo
  • Imagethief
  • Summary tagged “earthquake”
• Even if you’re not 太CNN 了, They’re still putting out better info than most Chinese sources
• Xinhua seems to be doing better than usual in Chinese, but their English side is understandably lagging a bit.
  
• Wikipedia already has a dedicated page up with some useful source links
• There are some decent photos on this Reuters page

If I find any more interesting links, I’ll pass them on.

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