The timing of this presentation by Democracy Now! is just eerie. It was published on April 28th of this year. By May 12th the earthquake had hit near the very area Yung Chang filmed his documentary, "Up The Yangtze".

One of the unfolding stories about the earthquake catastrophe is that the Three Gorges Dam may well have been the reason why the earthquake happened.

Back in 2006 the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks announced a study being conducted by one of their researchers in Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move. Astoundingly, the Chinese government had not done any catastrophe assessment of how the millions of cubic tons of water they were damming would induce earthquakes by putting pressure on the tectonic plates that lie right underneath the Yangtze river.

What's most astounding is that little over a year before completion, Chang says in the clip that the Chinese government finally acknowledged in September 2007 that if there were a major catastrophe in the region, they would have to relocate at least 2 million people. That is 2 million more people after the 2 million they relocated for the building of the dam.

Unfortunately, the emergency management estimates by Chinese officials were off by 10 million souls.