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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

and this is purely delirious speculation, and in no way based on anything except my active hate for totalitarian govenments

What if the chinese government, in a severly twisted effort to garner sympathy from the world, and to draw attention away from the brouhaha concerning their opression of Tibet and Tibetans leading up to the Olympics, deliberately exploded a large hydrogen bomb underground, causing the "earthquake" and creating public sympathy? Would this be too horrible?
just a delusion.

but I would not put anything past a government such as that.

i think seismographs would be able to detect the difference between a natural earthquake and a nucular one. really.