Aftershocks destroy 420,000 more homes

A woman mourns Tuesday for her child who died in a middle school destroyed by the May 12 earthquake. BEIJING, China (CNN) — Two additional aftershocks struck quake-ravaged China on Tuesday, injuring at least 63 people and causing the collapse of more than 420,000 homes, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua. The agency said [...]

China orders evacuation amid quake flood fears

Chinese authorities were Wednesday engaged in an all-out evacuation effort as a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month’s devastating earthquake threatened to engulf the area. As the death toll from the May 12 quake jumped to 67,000, state press said that emergency workers had wanted to move the residents from their homes near the [...]

ADB gives China grant to assess quake damage

The Asian Development Bank is to give China a one million dollar grant to assess the damage caused by the deadly earthquake that hit Sichuan province, the lender said Tuesday. This assessment will pave the way for further ADB projects to repair the damage and help those affected by the quake that hit the southwestern [...]

China say earthquake death toll rises to 65,080

BEIJING – A Chinese government spokesman says the death toll from the earthquake that struck two weeks ago has risen to 65,080. The toll given by Cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin on Monday was up about 2,500 from a day earlier. Premier Wen Jiabao has already said he expects the death toll to eventually surpass 80,000 [...]

China: Quake victims need millions of tents

A wedding photographer captures the moment immediately after the earthquake struck. BEIJING, China (CNN) — China’s government has appealed for more than 2 million tents to shelter the estimated 5 million people made homeless by the huge earthquake as the death toll continued to rise. More than 55,740 people are known to have died in [...]

Chinese man who survived China quake was 1976 quake survivor, too

BEIJING – A survivor of last week’s massive earthquake in China lived through an even worse disaster more than 30 years ago, a newspaper reported Friday. Taoqi, 60, from China’s ethnic Daur minority, was in an office building when it collapsed during the May 12 quake in Sichuan province that killed more than 55,000 people [...]

Death toll in China quake climbs to over 55,000

(Update) BEICHUAN, China – The death toll in the huge quake in China’s Sichuan province went above 55,000 Friday with 25,000 others still missing, while a provincial leader said the region plans to rebuild the quake zone within three years. Sichuan’s Vice Governor Li Chengyun told a news conference that the priority for now remains [...]

China quake death toll passes 50,000

A woman consoles a relative from the devastated Wenchuan county who survived the earthquake. BEIJING, China (CNN) — The death toll from the devastating earthquake in southwestern China has risen to 51,151, government officials reported on Thursday. The 7.9-magnitude quake injured 288,431 people, with another 29,328 missing, authorities said. As of midday Thursday, domestic and [...]

Miracle rescues in China quake as death toll tops 40,000

A woman who survived on rainwater and a man fed via a straw were Tuesday pulled out of the rubble eight days after China’s earthquake but hopes faded for others as the death toll topped 40,000. Amid fears of new aftershocks among a traumatised population, Beijing put out a fresh urgent appeal for tents as [...]

Aftershock terrifies China quake survivors

Thousands of terrified survivors of China’s earthquake huddled in the open with their meagre belongings Tuesday as an aftershock struck and the government warned of more powerful ones to come. Amid desperate efforts to reach nearly five million people left homeless by the killer May 12 quake, many people who still had their houses ran [...]