News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
The quake's epicenter was about 50 kilometers southeast of Panzhihua city in Sichuan province. More than 800,000 people in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces have been affected...Traffic has been disrupted and electricity -- cut off in some of the worst...
News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
Saturday's quake killed 22 people in Sichuan and five in the neighbouring province of Yunnan. The quake destroyed 180,000 homes, damaged major bridges and cracked three reservoirs. Another 362 people were injured and three were missing after the...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 year ago
The earthquake, which was centered in Sichuan Province on Saturday and had a magnitude of 6.1, damaged highways, reservoirs, bridges and hundreds of schools, and it forced the evacuation of more than 40,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring Yunnan...
News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
China’s battered southwest was rocked again by a powerful earthquake that shook the mountainous Sichuan and Yunnan provinces on Saturday, killing 28 as almost two lakh homes were damaged or toppled. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck on Saturday...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
Less than a week after the close of the Olympic Games, which brought mostly good news to China's government, officials struggled with the aftermath of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 27 people and injured hundreds Saturday. The...
News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 year ago
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday August 30, making it the sixth tremor to rattle the volatile region since the May 12 “Great Sichuan Earthquake”. At least 25 people have died and 190 were...