SHANGHAI, China--An earthquake that measured magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale has killed more than 7,600 people in western China, according to Xinhua news agency reports from the ...
... microphones and fiber-optic cable to probe rubble, searching for people trapped in Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province. Specially trained dogs are being used to lead crews to areas ...
SHANGHAI, China--The Chinese government announced today that the death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake could climb to more than 50,000 people. [More]
A professor of geosciences arrives in China 40 minutes before killer quake, watching Three Gorges Dam.
... to care for the animal population, sending food to the animals at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center, which is just about 20 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.
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Australian scientists have produced a detailed satellite assessment of the area affected by the China earthquake, helping authorities assess the level of damage.
... changes in stress. Around the world, earthquakes like the one in China are associated with triggered aftershocks that are very large. In 1999, a 7.1 earthquake in Duzce, Turkey, followed a 7.4 ...
... a geographer from Durham University, makes the observations on returning from carrying out investigative fieldwork in the China earthquake zone, where nearly 100,000 people were killed in May 2008. ...
... Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries. A geographer from Durham University makes the observations on returning from carrying out investigative fieldwork in the China earthquake zone.
... nearby Duzce. The devastating December 2004 Sumatra earthquake (M9.2) and tsunami were followed by an M8. ... 55 percent of all human loss to earthquakes occurs in China.
"Earthquakes do not kill people, ...
Following the recent news that a dam could be behind last year's devastating China earthquake, scientists stress that many types of human activity could be setting off nature's fury.
Mudslides that followed the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in ...
Mudslides that followed the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan, China earthquake may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from ...
One year after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the mountainous Sichuan Province, killing 90,000 and leaving 5 million homeless, residents are starting to pick up the pieces.
New research has found that the Wenchuan, China earthquake that occurred on 12 May 2008 had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors and poses a risk to the mental health ...
