Following last month’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake, Chinese officials originally reported that all 86 of the giant pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were safe. They were wrong.
The first students have begun returning to school in Wenchuan, China, the epicenter of last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people. Many of the dead were schoolchildren who were crushed when poorly constructed school buildings collapsed in the quake. Read more….
As the official death toll in China’s massive earthquake neared 15,000 Wednesday, military helicopters dropped food and medicine to survivors who remained cut off in remote mountain villages. In a NewsHour interview, Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., discussed the devastation in central China.
Can earthquakes be predicted? Many seismologists would probably answer, “Not yet, but eventually.” But to date, nobody has been able to predict earthquakes reliably enough and over short enough time scales to allow the evacuation of threatened cities. Some scientists have entirely lost faith in earthquake prediction.
Chinese officials say all 86 giant pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve are safe following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck central China on Monday.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked central China on Monday, killing as many as 5,000 in Sichuan province’s Beichuan county and trapping students in at least eight schools, according to the …
