With 5 trillion gallons of water ....

Behind the longest dam in the world, China's TGD was design-
ed to withstand Richter scale 7.0 earthquakes. With that 7.8
one that just hit SiChuan, China, the world's hydrologists,
structural and civil engineers, will be preoccupied for many
months, if not years.

Trying to assess damages ....

Regards,

Albert K. Fung
Casa Tres Palmas, Santa Ynez, California, USA.

On May 12, 12:44 pm, "Albert K. Fung" hotmail.com> wrote:

On 6 May nearly 80,000 m^3 of water that once filled the Guanyin pond
of Baiguo township of Enshi City, Hubei province sank underground with
a rumbling sound.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake
http://news.163.com/08/0506/09/4B8HUJO4000125LI.html (Chinese)