Monday, February 14, 2011

2008 China Earthquake

2008 Sichuan earthquake was a big event in the China, and the world. It was a level 8 earthquake. There were 69227 people died, and 4800000 people homeless in this earthquake. It is 21st deadliest earthquake of all time. This event loss 845,100,000,000 yuan, and the government spent 3 years and 1,000,000,000,000 yuan to rebuild and relief disaster area. After the earthquake, China had 3 mourning day, and they lowered the flag to half. Chinese people will never forget this event.

1 comment:

  1. That picture really shows the damage. Where were you when the earthquake happened?

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