A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Monday, leaving at least 66 people dead. Another 250 were injured and 15 still missing as of Tuesday evening, with more ...

The study highlights accumulating strain in locked segments of the Longmenshan Fault in southwest China, which was the site of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, as well as the Eastern Himalayan ...

SOTY 2014: Sichuan Earthquake victims inspired Vanesse Lai to re-invented herself The first 72 hours after a disaster are considered the most crucial in finding survivors. It cost ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck the county of Baiyu in Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, at 12:21 pm ...

David Enrich on the Right-Wing Plot to Erode Press Freedom by Overturning NYT v. Sullivan Libel Case ...

Last month's earthquake in Sichuan, China, has caused some 6 billion US dollars in damage to the province's agricultural sector, severely affecting over 30 million people in rural communities ...

Researchers, including Zhu Hongbin from the Beijing Earthquake Agency ... increasing the risk of quakes in Sichuan, Yunnan and the Himalayan region of China. We may currently be in the early ...

Infamous appeal to victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to stop complaining about the shoddy construction of schools, which led to the deaths of thousands of school children. Angered by the ...

Sichuan has experienced dozens of aftershocks since a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake on May 12. But Sunday's aftershock was the strongest since a 5.8-magnitude shook the region a day after ...

His book Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Cornell University Press, 2017) explores the ideological and discursive foundations of the Chinese Communist Party’s ...

Recent earthquakes such as the 7.9 magnitude 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and the 7.6 magnitude 2005 Kashmir Earthquake demonstrate that many communities do not have earthquake-resistant schools.