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 epicenter of Tuesday’s temblor, according to the Sichuan province’s earthquake bureau.
“A strong earthquake could cause direct damage,” Mr Fan Xiao, a former chief engineer in the geology and mineral bureau of Sichuan in south-western China, wrote in an article in October 2022 ...
A massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 shuttered almost a fifth of its hydropower for more than a year. The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor ...