紀念汶川地震三周年

 

事件回顧：

2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake or the Great Sichuan Earthquake was a deadly earthquake that measured at 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (02:28:01.42 EDT) on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China and killed at least 68,000 people.

It is also known as the Wenchuan earthquake (Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn), after the location of the earthquake's epicenter, Wenchuan County in Sichuan province. The epicenter was 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, with a focal depth of 19 kilometres (12 mi). The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai—1,500 kilometres (932 mi) and 1,700 kilometres (1,056 mi) away—where office buildings swayed with the tremor.

Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) state that 69,197 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliestearthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest since the 1950 Chayu earthquake in the country, which registered at 8.5 on Richter magnitude scale. It is the 21st deadliestearthquake of all time.

Strong aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 6, continued to hit the area even months after the main quake, causing new casualties and damage.

On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it will spend 1 trillion yuan (about $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake.

相關漢語參考信息：
汶川大地震發(fā)生于北京時間（UTC+8）2008年5月12日14時28分04.1秒，震中位于中國四川省阿壩藏族羌族自治州汶川縣映秀鎮(zhèn)附近、四川省省會成都市西北偏西方向79千米處。根據(jù)中國地震局的數(shù)據(jù)，此次地震的面波震級達8.0Ms、矩震級達8.3Mw（根據(jù)美國地質(zhì)調(diào)查局的數(shù)據(jù)，矩震級達到了7.9Mw），破壞地區(qū)超過10萬平方千米。地震烈度可能達到11度。地震波及大半個中國及多個亞洲國家和地區(qū)。北至北京，東至上海，南至香港、澳門、臺灣、泰國、越南，西至巴基斯坦均有震感。

截至2008年9月18日12時，汶川大地震共造成69227人死亡，是中華人民共和國成立以來破壞力最大的地震，也是唐山大地震后傷亡最慘重的一次。地震造成四川、甘肅、陜西等省的災區(qū)直接經(jīng)濟損失共8451億元人民幣，災區(qū)的衛(wèi)生、住房、校舍、通訊、交通、治安、地貌、水利、生態(tài)、少數(shù)民族文化等方面受到嚴重破壞。地震災情引起民間強烈回響，全中國以至全球紛紛捐款，累積捐款額超過500億元人民幣。中國軍方調(diào)動了和平時代以來規(guī)模最龐大的隊伍進行救災，中國民間的大批志愿者和來自中國各地以及世界各國的專業(yè)人道救援隊伍也加入救災。震后中國政府宣布投入一萬億元人民幣、用三年時間進行地震災區(qū)的重建工作，計劃在2010年基本實現(xiàn)目標。