hw earthquke

  This events happend at 2008.the 2008 sichuan earthquke,measured at 8.0ms and occurred at 02:28:01 PM china standard time at epicenter on monday may 12 in sichuan province,killed 69.197 people and left 18.222 missing.
  It was the deadliest earthquake to hit china since the 1976 tangshan earthquake,which killed at least 240.000 people.
  According to a study by the china earthquake administation (cea),the earthquke occurred along the longmenshan fault,a thrust stmcture along the border of the Indo-australian plate and eurasian plate.seismic activities concentrated on its mid-fracture.the rupture lasted close to 120 sec,with the majority of energy released in the first 80 sec.
  An official with the seismological burean stated that earthquake prediction is widely acknowledged around the world to be difficult from a scientific standpoint