Today marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake in Sichuan province, which killed more than 87,000 people and injured more than 370,000. The May 12, 2008, quake was magnitude 8 ...
The AP reports that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous area of Southwest China killing ...
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 ...
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.
His book Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Cornell University Press, 2017) explores the ideological and discursive foundations of the Chinese Communist Party’s ...