After nearly two weeks of firefighting, forest fires in Sichuan’s Yajiang County were reported extinguished on Thursday morning, according to the local emergency management bureau. “It was extremely ...

Tibetan craftsmen on western Sichuan plateau. By Xinhua Published: Nov 17, 2024 10:26 AM.

Sichuan, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic plates meet, is regularly hit by earthquakes. Two quakes in June killed at least four people.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing more than 30 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more ...

The 6.8 magnitude quake was Sichuan’s biggest since August 2017 when a magnitude 7.0 temblor hit the Aba region. This photo shows the aftermath of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake in Hailuogou in ...

The region sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic ... China's deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing more than 40 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more ...