Great Sichuan Earthquake,also known as the Wenchuan earthquake which measured at 8.0 Ms[6] and 8.3 Mw[7] according to PRC's China Seismological Bureau, and 7.9 Mw according to USGS, occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (06:28:01.42 UTC) on 12 May 2008.
After the earthquake's epicenter in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province.
The epicenter or epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus. The epicenter is usually the location of greatest damage.
The epicenter was 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, with a depth of 19 kilometres (12 mi).[2] The earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing (1,500 km away) and Shanghai (1,700 km away), where office buildings swayed with the tremor.[8] The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries.
Even as the number of deaths rises well above 10,000, reports coming in indicate that the Communist regime knew about it in advance but did not alert its citizens to the quake.
Ten days before the quake struck, some Sichuan residents had called up the local Earthquake Preparedness and Disaster Reduction office of the Provincial Seismological Bureau (EPDRSB) to verify "rumors" about an earthquake in the near future.
The bureau denied the possibility of a quake and, on May 9, published a notice on the regime's provincial website decrying such "rumors."
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