Exploring Sichuan Fault Date: August 14, 2008 Source: Durham University Summary: Scientists are to explore the fault lines that caused the May 12th earthquake in China that killed 69,000 people.

Using GIS technology to guide disaster mitigation, disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction is an important use for GIS applications. In order to confront a catastrophe on the scale of the ...

The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, ... digital maps that represent changes in elevation of the land.

More than 71,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble following the devastating earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province. Click on the map to find out more about some of the ...

April 5 (UPI) --Two damage-causing earthquakes have been linked to fracking operations in China's Sichuan Province. The two earthquakes, which originated in the South Sichuan Basin, registered ...

It’s the first of 2,000 such stations to be built in Sichuan and neighboring Yunnan as part of an “underground cloud map network” by 2020, the institute announced in a press release Tuesday. The ...

SHANGHAI — A 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked a mountainous area of China's western Sichuan province Saturday less than 100 miles from the provincial capital of Chengdu, killing at least 179 ...

Three major earthquakes of magnitudes 5.8, 6.0 and 5.2 jolted Caodeng township in Barkam, capital of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province early on Friday morning.

Earthquakes are fairly common in China, especially in the country's seismically active southwest. An 8.0-magnitude quake in 2008 in Sichuan's Wenchuan county left tens of thousands dead and caused ...

An earthquake in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan left at least three people dead and 60 injured on Thursday, according to state-run media.

In particular, I will discuss the post-2008 Sichuan earthquake reconstruction of Yingxiu township, which was reconstructed to perform the Party's benevolence, with scant consideration for its impact ...

<p>Updated: May 6, 2009</p><p>On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in Western China, killing about 70,000 people and leaving over ...