✦ History

2008 Sichuan earthquake

May 12, 2008 · Wenchuan, Sichuan

Magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan that killed about 87,000 people, many of them children in collapsed schools.

On the map Contemporaries

Key people

Wen Jiabao Premier; led the relief effort

Participants

Strength and losses

All
Deaths 69,196
Wounded 375,000