CHENGDU -- A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Hongyuan county in Southwest China's Sichuan province early Monday morning, according to local authorities. The earthquake occurred at 5:07 am ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
After an earthquake like that which happened in Ya'an in Sichuan, pulling the injured from the rubble within the first 72 hours is known as the golden time, but various problems are piling up to ...
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.