A quake of magnitude 8.0 that killed 69,227 people in May 2008 was one of China's deadliest natural disasters in decades. The ...

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

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 ...

In May 2008, a 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province in the southwest killed nearly 90,000 people. The collapse of schools and other buildings led to a yearslong effort to rebuild using more quake ...

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. In ...

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.

the fifth-deadliest since 2008, data from China's National Earthquake Data Center shows. Quakes are common in China's areas of Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan, especially on the edges of the ...