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Within 50 km (30 miles) of the quake epicentre on the edge of Qinghai province, the earthquake affected 22 towns and villages, but of that, two villages suffered the worst damage.
BBC News reported the 7.6 magnitude destroyed 55,000 houses and killed 241 people.. There was a recent magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Tibet that killed 126, according to CNN.. This is not the first ...
The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow (10 km depth) strike-slip faulting at the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. It ruptured a fault located near the Qilian Mountains. The geological structure responsible was the Lenglongling Fault, a segment of the Haiyuan Fault System.
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [ 3 ]
It dispersed funds to more than 50 organizations through grants, loans, and equity investments. As of December 2012, the Fund estimated that its programs sustained or created 7,350 jobs, trained 20,050 individuals, and had an additional positive impact on the conditions of more than 311,000 Haitians. [2]
Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were being set up Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 135 people ...
In 2008, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan, claiming the lives of at least 70,000 people, the deadliest quake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan quake that killed at least 242,000.
Wal-Mart donated US$600,000 and allowed donations at its cash registers. [115] Winn-Dixie donated US$200,000 and, allowed customers to donate at registers (.50 cents to $500). [116] World Council of Credit Unions collected $206,161 in donations during the first week following the earthquake. A team from the council went to Haiti to assist in ...