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 ...

Xinhua reports on the removal of fifteen Chinese officials for their poor responses to earthquake relief efforts: Fifteen government officials from quake-hit Sichuan Province have been removed ...

They decided to look at earthquakes because they've become a sensitive issue for the Chinese government in the wake of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which resulted in nearly 90,000 casualties and ...

Then she heard about the earthquake that hit her home province in China, Sichuan, and panicked when she couldn ... “The whole country is very united on this issue,” he said. “And the government is ...

Myanmar’s military-run government has declared ... and created a massive plume of dust. The earthquake was felt in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China and caused injuries and damage to houses ...

On behalf of the Chinese government and people ... Wang Tun, an earthquake early warning expert and head of the Sichuan-based Institute of Care-life, told the Global Times on Sunday.

But the Chinese government is also under intense scrutiny ... and stated that even during the magnitude 8.0 Sichuan earthquake in 2008, no skyscrapers collapsed in Chengdu, only 50 kilometers ...