On Tuesday April 13th, a powerful 7.1 earthquake hit Qinghai province in China. The earthquake caused extensive damage and almost 1700+ lives were lost. The scale of the damage can be seen with these images from the region. Here's a image from
GeoEye showing the destruction. Click on the image for a larger high resolution view of the destruction.

Image grab from
Google Maps prior to the earthquake

(Note: Download this
KML for a view in Google Earth of before and after earthquake imagery from Yushu, China - via
Google LatLong Blog)
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