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The earthquake struck Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, at 2:28 p.m., just when students were taking lessons in schools, caretakers were watching over giant pandas, farmers were tilling fields and people were shopping in stores. The initial tremor, which...
Tags: PetroChina, Sichuan Province, sichuan provinces, white paper, State Council, Ren Qiang, Baoji-Chengdu
One Year after 5.12 Quake The largest relocation and residential migration is taking place in China's quake hit Sichuan Province...They lost their fields and homes in the disaster and now they are beginning their journey to a new home,in Qionglai City.
Tags: China, billion yuan, southwest china, sichuan provinces, Sichuan Province
Parents of students who died in last year's powerful earthquake in southwest China said Thursday that design blueprints of one of the worst-hit schools support claims that builders ignored safety standards. Comparisons between blueprints for Beichuan...
Tags: China Daily, Sichuan, Beichuan county, Beichuan Middle School, group wedding, sichuan provinces
An usually harsh winter is expected in the mountains of Sichuan, where millions of quake victims live in temporary housing that gives little protection against cold, rain and snow, provincial officials said on Friday. The 7.9 magnitude quake, which hit...
Tags: earthquake, China, Sichuan Province, warning, sichuan provinces, quake victims, china quake, Wei Hong, vice governor, quake rebuilding
The 56-mile road in Sichuan province linking Wenchuan county and Dujiangyan, near the provincial capital of Chengdu, has been repaired, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Wenchuan was the epicenter of the powerful magnitude-7.9 quake on May 12...
Tags: China Earthquake Administration, Sichuan, China Daily, quake zone, Huili County, Wen Jiabao, premier wen, sichuan provinces, Yunnan Province
China leaving at least 25 people dead and over 300 injured, state press reported. The quake struck the border region between Sichuan and Yunnan provinces late yesterday afternoon leaving up to 130,000 homes damaged or collapsed in Yunnan alone, Xinhua...
Tags: Sichuan-Yunnan, New China News Agency, China Earthquake Administration, Sichuan Province, sichuan provinces, china quake, Panzhihua, Yunnan Province, yunnan provinces, magnitude earthquake
One person died and 23 were injured today when an earthquake hit parts of western China. The tremor was in the same region wrecked by a quake that killed at least 70,000 people in May. Today's tremor, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, shook the Chinese...
Tags: China Red Cross, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, Sichuan Province, sichuan provinces, olympic torch, magnitude quake, Qingchuan County
W enchuan was the epicentre of the deadly May 12 earthquake which killed some 70,000 people and devastated an area of 446,000 square kilometre.
Tags: China Earthquake Networks Center, Sichuan Province, earthquake hit, hit sichuan, sichuan provinces, Pingwu County, magnitude earthquake, hit southwest, southwest china
An aftershock measuring 6.0 magnitude jolted the area between Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province and Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province Thursday afternoon, leaving at least five people injured. The epicenter of the aftershock was at 32.8 degrees north...
Tags: China Earthquake Networks Center, Southwest China Hit, Sichuan Province, Xinhua News Agency, sichuan provinces, earthquake hit, Shaanxi Province, quake rattle, official xinhua, magnitude earthquake
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China early Friday, the US Geological Survey said, striking the area devastated by a massive quake in May...The May 12 quake, which measured 8.0 on the Richter scale, devastated wide swathes of Sichuan province,...
Tags: China, sichuan provinces, Sichuan Province, membership dues, southwest china, Communist Party, quake relief