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 ...

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 ...

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 Qinghai-Tibetan plateau above the ...

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