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China.org.cn, May 5, 2011 Adjust font size:
The quake, measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, occurred at 14:28 on May 12, 2008 in southwest China's Sichuan Province. It is also known as the Wenchuan earthquake due to the location of the earthquake's epicenter, Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province.
[Magnitude]8.0[Aftershocks]Over 30,000
[Dead and Missing] Over 86,600
[Survivors]84,000
[People resettled]15.1 mln
[Direct losses]845.1 bln yuan
[Gov´t quake rehabilitation fund by 2010]3 tln yuan
[Domestic/Overseas donations]59.27 bln yuan
