Earthquake — China: Sichuan Province

When

12 May 2008

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.9

Where

China

Coordinates

30.98° N, 103.40° E

Deaths

87652

Injuries

374171

Damage musd

86000

Houses destroyed

5360000

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

10

Magnitude 8.0 earthquake in China

An earthquake occurred in the province of Sichuan, China at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008. Measuring at 8.0 Ms, the earthquake's epicenter was located 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital, with a focal depth of 19 km (12 mi). The earthquake ruptured the fault for over 240 km (150 mi), with surface displacements of several meters.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2008 Siçuan depremi: Moment magnitüd ölçeği göre 7,9 büyüklüğünde bir deprem Çin'in Siçuan kentini vurdu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem schweren Erdbeben im chinesischen Sichuan werden schätzungsweise 70.000 Menschen getötet und 5,8 Mio”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia de Sichuan (China), se registra un devastador terremoto de 7,9 que deja un saldo de 87.587 víctimas mortales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “زلزال سيشوان يضرب ولاية سيشوان الصينية”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حداقل ۵۱هزار نفر کشته و ۳۰هزار مفقودالاثر بر اثر زمین‌لرزه ۷٫۸ ریشتری سیچوان در جنوب غربی چین”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “汶川大地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “四川大地震の発生 ：中華人民共和国四川省汶川県を震央とするマグニチュード8.0の巨大地震が起こる（■右の画像を参照）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page