A British landslide expert today urged China to immediately evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from the path of a giant dam he fears is ready to burst.

The massive lake caused by the Chinese earthquake was still rising today despite military efforts to blast away the wall of debris that created it.

Soldiers blew up wooden houses and other debris today in a lake formed by China’s deadly earthquake to speed the flow of water into a diversion channel and ease the threat of flooding for more than 1 million people in the sprawling disaster zone.