关于地震的话题（英语）

Earthquakes used to be something remote for 33-year-old Cao Lili -- that is until she saw on TV what had happened in Sichuan Province on May 12. On one hand, she had been shedding tears and praying for the victims. On the other, she was collecting knowledge on how to survive in quakes.

"I'm surprised to find sometimes it's wrong to hide under desks as we have been told. We should seek shelter in triangle areas -- space possibly formed by the falling ceiling, the floor and the hard objects like a wall, bed or tables," says the English teacher in Longkou, Shandong Province, thousands of kilometers away from Sichuan. "I'm passing the information on to my students."

The earthquake shook an area about 100,000 sq km involving 27.92 million people, the size of some European countries, figures from the Sichuan provincial government show.

The death toll has risen to nearly 70,000 with almost 20,000 still missing, and the fig