2013 Lushan earthquake

Background Information

2013 Lushan earthquake

The Lushan earthquake or Ya'an earthquake occurred at 08:02 Beijing Time (00:02 UTC) on April 20, 2013. The epicenter was located in Lushan County, Ya'an, Sichuan, about 116 km from Chengdu along the Longmenshan Fault in the same province heavily impacted by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The magnitude of the earthquake was placed at Ms 7.0 by China Earthquake Data Center, Ms 7.0 by Russian Academy of Sciences, Mw 7.0 by Geoscience Australia, Mw 6.6 by the United States Geological Survey, Mw 6.6 by the European Alert System and Mj 6.9 by the Japan Meteorological Agency. 1,815 aftershocks have been recorded by April 22.

The earthquake has resulted in 196 people dead, 24 missing, at least 11,826 injured with more than 968 seriously injured as by April 20. Sichuan provincial government has held the 3rd press conference on April 21, reported that the earthquake has resulted in 186 people dead, 21 missing, 11248 injured and 852 of them seriously as by April 21, this is still the latest official report.

Edison' comments

There were times of shocking earthquakes happened in China during the last couple years. It’s as known as the Wenchuan earthquake that killed 68,636 and injured 374,176 people in China five years ago as of September 22, 2008. It was a horrible disaster that the huge dragon from the east-the country named China had fallen into sadness and painfulness. We begged that those kinds of disasters will never come again to hurt this country. Unfortunately, it happened again this year. 

Somebody said that those disasters were revenges from the nature of earth. To be Honest, China has sacrificed its environment and people’s benefits to exchange the rapid growth of economy and society. The environments in the south of China are getting worse and worse. My presents told me that they could swim in the riven near my school in my hometown, but at present that riven has already became a black smelly and toxic riven by a sauce manufactory. So somebody gloated that Chinese were revenged by the earth and dead in the disasters.

Have you ever thought about that the feeling of the people who die innocently? In case the people who dead in the earthquake are revenged by the earth, why they are deserved to die by others’ faults? And the victims in Pine Town crash, they were all killed by a over-speed track and unskillful driver. Can anybody answer this question?

To the people who still alive, the only thing I would like to say to you is we should treasure the people we love and treasure the time we are still holding in our hands.