Over the past five years, there have been 29 earthquakes with magnitudes of 3 or above within 200 km of the epicentre of Tuesday's temblor, according to the Sichuan province's earthquake bureau.

SOTY 2014: Sichuan Earthquake victims inspired Vanesse Lai to re-invented herself The first 72 hours after a disaster are considered the most crucial in finding survivors. It cost ...

The Jan. 7 earthquake, the fifth-strongest in China since the destructive 2008 Sichuan temblor, left at least 126 people dead and injured 338 in Tibet. More than 47,000 people in Tingri had to be ...

Loading In 2008, an 8 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan’s Chengdu, claiming the lives of at least 70,000 people, the deadliest quake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan quake that killed at ...

Last month's earthquake in Sichuan, China, has caused some 6 billion US dollars in damage to the province's agricultural sector, severely affecting over 30 million people in rural communities ...

"A strong earthquake could cause direct damage," Fan Xiao, a former chief engineer in the geology and mineral bureau of Sichuan in southwestern China, wrote in an article in October 2022 on the ...

The AP reports that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous area of Southwest China killing ...

A massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 shuttered almost a fifth of its hydropower for more than a year. The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor ...

Recent earthquakes such as the 7.9 magnitude 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and the 7.6 magnitude 2005 Kashmir Earthquake demonstrate that many communities do not have earthquake-resistant schools.