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May 20, 2017, 2:49 PM
CCs77
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Kowloon Walled City definitively doesn't count since it was demolished and it is now a park, with very little of the structures that stood there.
I didn't know about Beichuan. After being leveled by an earthquake and subsequent landslides, the chinese government decided to preserve the ruins as they were, creating a memorial that people could visit. The city was reconstructed some kilometers away.
Picture from The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/20...-later/100513/
Pictures from amusing planet
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/06...arthquake.html
You can see some semi destroyed buildings with stabilizing supports, informative billboards and wooden paths for visitors to walk through the ruins.
I think it is scaring to think that there should be maybe hundreds of bodies still buried under all those debris.
Pictures from The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/20...-later/100513/
Visitors entering to the destroyed city and people conmemorating an anniversary of the quake.
The earthquake triggered landslides that changed the flow of some rivers, like this one that goes through a tunnel and then over a destroyed bridge before spiling out in a waterfall.
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