Sentences with phrase «sichuan quake»

Recent earthquakes in Algeria, Italy, Iran, Morocco and Turkey [the report predated the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan that killed 17,000 students and, of course, the Sichuan quake] demonstrate that many threatened communities do not yet have earthquake - resistant schools.

And the Sichuan quake, as bad as it has been, will not wake the U.S. or most of the rest of the world to the realities of our «rubble in waiting».

Here's a resolution passed on the anniversary of the Sichuan quake by the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission, pleading with the state's elected leaders to carry out spending on earthquake retrofitting authorized by voters in 2002:

Yet not always: the 2008 Sichuan quake in China (pictured) came out of the blue.

Not exact matches

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

Researchers have attempted to monitor the underground temperature after an on - land earthquake on three previous occasions — after the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan, the 1999 Chi Chi quake in Taiwan and the 2008 Wenchuan quake in Sichuan Province, China.

Areas like Sichuan are already prone to earthquakes — the Wenchuan quake in 2008 killed at least 70,000 people and may have been exacerbated by the reservoirs for new dams in the region.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan County in Sichuan near the famed Wolong Nature Reserve — home of the panda breeding program — but was felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand.

For his first exhibition at White Cube in 2009, Zhang Huan created an installation and series of paintings based on a renowned survivor of the recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China, a pig that lived, trapped, for 49 days after the quake, surviving on rainwater, rotten wood and a small amount of foraged feed.

More than a thousand schools in Oregon are ready to fall in a quake that could be 32 times more powerful than the one that shattered eastern Sichuan province.

After the destruction of hundreds of poorly built schools in China's Sichuan province, I wrote repeatedly here and in print about similar vulnerability identified by engineers and seismologists in that state, despite the clear record of devastating quakes and tsunamis generated by the Cascadia fault beneath the sea bed off the Northwest coast.