Special
report: Strong Earthquake
Jolts SW China
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Newly born babies are moved to open space to avoid danger in a hospital after an earthquake occurred
in Nanchong, a city of southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12,
2008. A major earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of Southwest
China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday. Earthquake was
felt in Nanchong, Chengdu, Chongqing, Zhengzhou and Lanzhou. The International Nurse
Day celebrated on the day of May 12.(Xinhua
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Medical staff and nurses transfer the
newborns to a provisional rendezvous at open space, in Chengdu, capital of
southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 12, 2008. Chengdu felt strong
aftershocks on Tuesday morning, after 9,219 people died in Monday's
powerful earthquake, the worst to strike China since the Tangshan
earthquake in north China's Hebei Province in 1976, which claimed 242,000
lives.The Sichuan Earthquake Networks reported at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday that
they recorded 1,180 aftershocks in the past three hours, with the
strongest measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale. The aftershocks included two
measuring 6.0 and 11 ones measuring between 5.0 and 5.9.(Xinhua
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Medical personnel give emergency
treatment to an injured baby in Dujiangyan city of southwest China's
Sichuan Province May 12, 2008. A major eathquake measuring 7.8 on Richter
scale jolted Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday,
leading to the collapse of many buildings in the neighbouring city of
Dujiangyan.(Xinhua Photo)
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Medical workers give treatment to a
wounded person stranded in the ruins of a high school in the
earthquake-affected Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province,
on May 13, 2008. A major eathquake measuring 7.8 Richter Scale jolted
Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on
Monday. The quake has left 9,219 people dead in eight affected provinces
and municipality including Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan,
Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a release
issued at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday. (Xinhua Photo)
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Patients of some hospitals are moved to
the open space to avoid dangers in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's
Sichuan Province, on May 12, 2008. Major earthquake in southwest China's
Sichuan Province has killed 8,533 people by 10:50 p.m. Monday in Sichuan
alone. (Xinhua Photo)
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