Sichuan:" Thank you, China"
April 12th 2008, this is the date that the whole China nation will never ever forget, the occurring day of the Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake. It is absolutely a tragedy for the whole country even the whole world, but on the other hand, the action and measures that the government made reduce a lot of damage in terms of people, construction, economy etc. , making the incident way lease tragic. Therefore, the whole Sichuan city have to thanks its own country.
First, let's take a in depth review of the Sichuan Earthquake in terms of the technical aspects. The accurate occurring time for the Sichuan earthquake is 14:28 local time (06:28:01 UTC), April 12th 2008. The epicentre is located at the coordinate: 30.986°N, 103.364°E, and the focus is 19 km (11.8 miles) under the surface of the Earth (horizontal +/- 5 km (3.1 miles). The magnitude of this earthquake is 7.9.(Based on USGS). This quake was caused by the contact of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian plates which is a convergent boundary.(Based on britannica)
The impact that the Sichuan earthquake made on the country is tremendous, the earthquake notified more than ten city nearby and fatly destroyed Wenchuan city, killing 68127 individuals and injuring 373612 people. In addition, there are 17918 people were considered as missing. Overall, there are 457109765 individuals are affected. (http://archrecord.construction.com/community/editorial/archives/0807.asp)
Luckily, China is already a super power country at 2008 which is capable to take action and immediate measures to minimize to damage of this earthquake. The people's liberation army took action and deployed to helicopter to the disaster area just after four hours, they react so quick under the condition that all the communication is cut due to the disaster. In addition to the massive amount of people's liberation army for rescuing, there are over 100000 individual volunteer from all around the country to join in the rescuing action. Moreover, due to the decent relationship between China and the majority of the other nations, there ares lots of foreign countries have deployed rescue and medical team to help Sichuan out. In this case, China is extremely open-minded and welcome the foreign help also appreciated it. Under the support from the government and the help for other countries as well as volunteer, the outcome of the earthquake is not as bad as people think. (http://archrecord.construction.com/community/editorial/archives/0807.asp)
Hence, although the earthquake is fatal, the whole country should glad that the support from the government is solid enough so that the damage was reduced.
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