Zeping Xu, from the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, reports on the impact of the disaster on the province’s dams and reservoirs The strongest earthquake to hit China in more than three decades jolted Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province at 2:28pm on 12 May 2008, resulting in the death of over 60,000 people. Impact of Earthquake on the Chinese Economy Is Seen as Minimal A bus on a temporary road replacing a bridge in Sichuan Province that collapsed in the May earthquake… Especially when seeing the pictures of young kids' deaths, the tragedy of no one surviving in whole schools, it makes us heart-broken and angry. It had a magnitude of 7.8 Ms according to the State Seismological Bureau of China The epicenter was 90 km west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The Sichuan Earthquake stirred the blood and tears of everybody. However, the impact of disaster events on political trust is complicated.
In his book Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Christian Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the tragedy.
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake happened at 14:28:04.1 CST (06:28:04.1 UTC) on 12 May 2008, with its epicenter in Wenchuan County, Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China.
The flames of anger are burning towards the corrupted officials and construction businessmen. Claiming sixty-nine thousand victims, the earthquake that hit Sichuan province on 12 May 2008 not only took an enormous toll in human lives, but also had a major political impact in China.
Sichuan earthquake of 2008, also called Wenchuan earthquake or Great Wenchuan Earthquake, Chinese Wenchuan dizhen or Wenchuan Da Dizhen, massive and enormously devastating earthquake that occurred in the mountainous central region of Sichuan province in southwestern China on May 12, 2008. The specific focus lies in the political success of the Chinese government in managing the crisis in the context of a drastic socio‐economic transition.
The purpose of this research note is to give an overview of the Chinese Government's political response to the May 2008 deadly earthquake in Sichuan province.
The earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing and …