绵竹今日起挖出遗体不再认领即刻深埋 || Body buried if not claimed, start today.

地震救援的“黄金72小时”，在大雨和晴阳交替中，无情流逝。

在这场地震中，位于龙门山脉西侧的汶川县和东侧的绵竹市汉旺镇，同时遭受了重大伤亡。

截至5月15日下午6点，绵竹市委指挥部宣布核实的遇难者人数已达到4250人，这几乎是省内死亡数字最高的地区之一。而绵竹所辖的清平、天池和金花三个深山中的乡镇，久久无音讯，数万人，生死不明。这三个镇能步行下山脱险者，为数寥寥。一名脱险者告诉记者，三镇倒塌房屋成片，失踪人数难以计数。

而一位在现场24小时待命的中国红十字会北京999急救中心的医生告诉记者，在地震后72小时后，救援生还的可能性极大降低，生还率不足1%，而现场发生疫病的可能性却大大增加。

72 hours after large scale disaster has been regarded as the golden opportunity to save victims. It is however passing way too quickly for those who are trying to save lives in Sichuan.

Till 6 o’clock 15th May, Command centre of Mianzhuan has confirmed 4250 dean, this is almost put it amongst the regions with the highest death-toll. To make things worse, 3 smaller regions within Mianzhu, Qingping, Tianchi and Jinhua have been lost contact for very long time. These towns situated deep in the mountains, tens of thousands of lives cannot be confirmed. There are only very few people can escape the quake by walking out, one of them told the journalist that large area of house and building have collapsed, countless number of people are dead.

A doctor from China Redcross of Bejing 999 has told journalist, 72 hours after disaster, the chance for survival drops significantly, can be as low as 1%, however, the chance for large scale pandemic increases sharply.

台湾卫星拍下整座山被震塌 || Taiwan satellite images shown collapsed mountain

台湾成功大学今天公开多张由福卫二号卫星拍摄到的照片，显示四川汶川大地震，对汶川附近的地貎造成相当大的破坏。其中两张图片，分别是绵竹市绵远河上游堰塞湖附近一座山坡在震前震后的地貎，可以看到这座山坡发生极为严重的山体滑坡，山下的河道都被填平

Chenggong university of Taiwai published images captured by Fuwei 2 satellite, showing the massive damage the region has sustained as the result of this large scale earth quake in Wenchuan region in Sichuan. Two of the images was captured before and after the quake strucked near Yansai lake – a place close to Mianzhu town, upstream of of Mianyuan river. It clearly shows the high magnitude damage to this mountain area, especially the large scale of landslides, even completely fill the the river that was once there before the quake.