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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hill points out other areas where added stress from water played a part in triggering an earthquake. China’s Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, 7.9-magnitude, was linked to the impoundment of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most powerful Sichuan earthquake on record was in May 2008, when a magnitude 8.0 quake centred in Wenchuan killed almost 70,000 people and caused extensive damage. Monday's quake was also felt ...

(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 ...