Aftershock rocks China quake lake, triggers landslides

China on Monday promulgated the regulation on reconstruction after the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake. It was the first of its kind in the country, specially for a single massive quake, which led the reconstruction work into a legal orbit....

trong quake jolts SW China The Ministry of Civil Affairs says more than 46-million people have now been affected by the May 12th Wenchuan earthquake...More than 374,000 people have been injured and over 17,000 are still missing. A 5.0 magnitude ...

Aftershocks Monday continued to threaten the stability of a swollen "quake lake" in southwest China, amid urgent efforts to drain its rising waters to prevent a flood downstream. A 5.0-magnitude aftershock rattled the area of quake-devastated ...

The death toll of China's major earthquake increased by 6 overnight to 69,142 as of Monday noon, the State Council Information Office said. A total of 374,065 people were injured and 17,551 others remained missing after the 8.0-magnitude quake that ...

Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of one million people downstream from a "quake lake" in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers could drain them. Engineers and soldiers are still ...

ET The Associated Press A strong aftershock has rattled cities in the central region of China already devastated by last month's earthquake...Geological Survey measured the temblor that hit Monday afternoon at magnitude 5....

A 5.0-magnitude aftershock jolted Pengxian County of southwest China's Sichuan Province at 3:28 p.m...The epicenter of the aftershock is at 31.4 degrees north latitude and 103.8 degrees east longitude in Pengxian, some 20 kilometers from the ...

A strong aftershock was felt in the Tangjiashan "quake lake" area in China's Sichuan province Monday morning and authorities were studying its impact on the swollen lake. A Xinhua reporter who was present at the time of the tremor said over phone ...

Television and official websites showed People's Liberation Army troops firing 82 millimeter recoilless guns at debris on Sunday. Troops dislodged enough debris to speed the drainage of waters in Tangjiashan lake, although the level continued to ...

A magnitude 5.0 aftershock shook a brimming, earthquake-formed lake and sent landslides tumbling down surrounding mountains Sunday, underscoring the persistent threat of flooding to more than 1 million weary refugees downstream. No new evacuations ...