(Xinhua/Xue Yubin) When the clock struck 2:28:04 pm on Tuesday, it marked the 12th anniversary of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. But the national spirit ...

Nine years ago a devastating earthquake hit Wenchuan. More than 70,000 people were killed and nearly 5 million were left homeless. Left: The structure of a clock at the Wenchuan Earthquake ...

During an earthquake, the ground tears apart along a fault, leaving a jagged series of fractures. After China's devastating magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, fluids filled the fractured ...

This article is part of a series about the Wenchuan earthquake, which left more than 80,000 people dead or missing in May 2008. SICHUAN, Southwest China — For 8-year-old Liu Qing, the school week ...

November 5, 2010 -- The devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake marks a defining moment for China's earthquake science program. The focus of a special November issue of the prestigious Bulletin of ...

The Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake occurred at 2:28 PM LT (6:28 UTC) on 12 May 2008, striking Wenchuan, Beichuan, and Qingchuan counties, located in the northwestern part of the Sichuan province.

In this episode of Sixth Tone’s podcast, reporters Wang Lianzhang and Lin Qiqing look back on one of modern China’s most devastating disasters, the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that struck southwestern ...

On May 12, a most devastating earthquake since the founding of new China hit Wenchuan in the southwest Sichuan Province. Confronting such a destructive natural disaster, Chinese Internet media ...

The Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan in China was a major catastrophe that led to more than 87,000 deaths, destroyed homes of more than 5 million people, and produced direct economic losses of $120 ...

(Xinhua/Xue Yubin) When the clock struck 2:28:04 pm on Tuesday, it marked the 12th anniversary of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. But the national spirit ...

The structure of a clock at the Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum is inscribed with the date and time when Sichuan was hit by a massive earthquake. [Photo by Melanie Peters/For China Daily ...