Study says China quake a once in 4,000 years event

China's devastating earthquake last year that left some 90,000 people dead or missing was caused by a geological event that occurs about once every 4,000 years, a study led by Chinese researchers said Sunday.

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China says flaws may have led to school collapses

Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws causing so many of them to collapse.

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8 earthquake pandas arrive in Beijing for Olympics

Eight pandas reached Beijing safely Saturday after a long journey from their damaged reserve near the epicenter of the recent earthquake in China.

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China aftershock destroys 71,000 homes; 6 killed

A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China on Sunday, killing six people and straining recovery efforts from the country's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 500 others were injured.

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Many Chinese are expressing an interest in adopting children orphaned by the earthquake. The high interest is another sign of China's post-quake outpouring of sympathy, buoyed by rising prosperity.

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The catastrophic earthquake last May 12 set off an unprecedented surge of volunteerism in China. But the government, always wary of groups beyond its control, has since sought to restrain it.

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A year after the massive Sichuan earthquake leveled hundreds of schools, China finally gave Thursday its first official tally of the numbers of students dead or missing: 5,335.

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Last June, a crowd of infuriated parents clambered over the collapsed wall of the municipal government compound in this quake-stricken town. At a noisy meeting, they wrung from their local Communist Party chief a promise.

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More than 19,000 schoolchildren died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged Friday for the first time.

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Sealed off by guards and a chain-link fence ringed with barbed wire, the moment when an earthquake ripped through western China and destroyed Beichuan remains perfectly preserved.

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Rebuilding China's earthquake-devastated areas is expected to cost $147 billion, a government report released this week said.

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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has hit China's Sichuan province that was devastated by a more powerful quake in May, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday.

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Two months after an earthquake ravaged much of Sichuan province, workers are diligently salvaging bricks to restore a 6th century Taoist temple damaged in the disaster.

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Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of� China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.

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A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during the May earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should not be awarded merely for good deeds.

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In the 50 hours she was trapped under rubble after last month's earthquake, mother-to-be Zhang Xiaoyan prayed hardest not for her own life but for her baby's survival.

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At least 80 percent of the habitat for giant pandas in China's earthquake-hit province was destroyed or damaged, a forestry official said Tuesday.

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The massive earthquake that rocked China's southwest Sichuan province left an estimated 5.5 million homeless. The need for new housing is enormous and urgent. Msnbc.com's Kari Huus reports.

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Chinese troops began easing pressure on a dangerously swollen "quake lake" on Saturday, with water gushing into a man-made sluice in an operation monitored by satellite.

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Shoddy construction and poor planning contributed to the toll from China's devastating earthquake, engineers studying the disaster for the government said Thursday.

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Anguished Chinese parents said on Wednesday they will press ahead with complaints against officials they blame for schools that toppled in a devastating earthquake, a day after police sought to silence one protest.

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Anguished Chinese parents said on Wednesday they will press ahead with complaints against officials they blame for schools that toppled in a devastating earthquake, a day after police sought to silence one protest.

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Fears of a devastating flood from a lake formed by last month's Sichuan earthquake eased on Sunday after hundreds of soldiers and engineers successfully completed a channel to drain away the rising water.

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Chinese officials said Monday that the country's one-child-per family-policy will be excepted for families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country's devastating earthquake.

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BAI HUA TAN, China — It is not a voyage for the faint of heart. Chinese soldiers walked Saturday on a section of highway rerouted to follow an old riverside footpath, bypassing tons of rocks and earthquake debris blocking the regular way to Yingxiu.

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The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.

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A POWERFUL 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked central China, shaking buildings and spreading panic in cities as far away as Olympic host Beijing and the business hub of Shanghai.

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