May 12,2008.

Recently, China experienced an earthquake with an intensity of 7.8-magnitude killing nearly 9,000 people. Students were even trapped in school and couldn’t get out. According to the news, it’s one of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China. Actually, it was in the  hilly region of small cities and towns in Sichuan and nearby provinces.

 

Communications, water and electricity resources were affected because of the incident. Because of what happened, the governament in China sent 8,000 soldiers and police to the area to help. Nurses and other medical teams were also there.

 

The earthquake was really devastating becausetThe quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, and A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.

 
 
source: yahoo news