On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

Beichuan County, located in a mountainous region of Sichuan Province, China, was severely damaged during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Survivors of the quake have been relocated and the county town ...

Image: An ALOS Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) interferogram that shows the surface deformation associated with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The white curves depict traces ...

Netizens are commemorating the 15th anniversary of one of modern China’s most devastating disasters: the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake that struck southwestern China’s Sichuan province. Survivors have been ...

* Death toll almost 10,000 in Sichuan, many more feared * Government urges aid drive, warns on social stability * Worst-hit Wenchuan county cut off from rescuers; no word from three townships nearest ...

(Reuters) - China next week marks one year since the May 12 earthquake that devastated parts of the country's southwest. Here are some facts about the quake and its aftermath. * The 8.0-magnitude ...