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been flattened. it include a couple of schools, a hotel and many offices. it really does look pretty desperate out there. they are rushing in troops and armed police to help in the rescue effort. for the tibetan region i mentioned here that a neighboring province, sichuan province, has a deadly quake a couple years ago. killed almost 90,000 people. have the standards for building at all changed since then? well, this is a far more rural area than the area hit by the sichuan earthquake. that was then a fairly big town. this is really a very remote, rural settlement. there s 70,000 people. a lot of the towns, a lot of the buildings are fairly traditional and wood and mud structures. i don t think it s really a question of building codes. it s just mud and wood really doesn t hold up very well. andrew, thank you very much for sharing what you ve been able to learn so far. we ll look forward to more
china s far western tibetan area has been devastated by a series of earthquakes, the largest quake registering a magnitude 6.9. at least 400 people have been killed. more than 10,000 have been injured. many were trapped in their homes as their poorly designed houses collapsed on top of them. today s series of quakes hit less than two years after a deadly 7.9 quake in neighboring sichuan province called almost 90,000 people. on the phone from beijing is foreign correspondent for the washington post andrew higgins. what are you learning about the results of today s series of quakes, andrew? well, they re still not giving details and a death toll. because i think this is probably a really remote location. it takes 12 hours to drive from the provincial capital. it s certainly pretty bleak. you can see from shots you re seeing on television that the epicenter of the quake, 90% of the buildings have basically