事件回顾：
2008 Sichuan earthquake
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake or the Great Sichuan Earthquake was a deadly earthquake that measured at 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (02:28:01.42 EDT) on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China and killed at least 68,000 people.
It is also known as the Wenchuan earthquake (Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn), after the location of the earthquake's epicenter, Wenchuan County in Sichuan province. The epicenter was 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, with a focal depth of 19 kilometres (12 mi). The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai—1,500 kilometres (932 mi) and 1,700 kilometres (1,056 mi) away—where office buildings swayed with the tremor.
Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) state that 69,197 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliestearthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest since the 1950 Chayu earthquake in the country, which registered at 8.5 on Richter magnitude scale. It is the 21st deadliestearthquake of all time.
Strong aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 6, continued to hit the area even months after the main quake, causing new casualties and damage.
On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it will spend 1 trillion yuan (about $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake.
相关汉语参考信息：
汶川大地震发生于北京时间（UTC+8）2008年5月12日14时28分04.1秒，震中位于中国四川省阿坝藏族羌族自治州汶川县映秀镇附近、四川省省会成都市西北偏西方向79千米处。根据中国地震局的数据，此次地震的面波震级达8.0Ms、矩震级达8.3Mw（根据美国地质调查局的数据，矩震级达到了7.9Mw），破坏地区超过10万平方千米。地震烈度可能达到11度。地震波及大半个中国及多个亚洲国家和地区。北至北京，东至上海，南至香港、澳门、台湾、泰国、越南，西至巴基斯坦均有震感。
截至2008年9月18日12时，汶川大地震共造成69227人死亡，是中华人民共和国成立以来破坏力最大的地震，也是唐山大地震后伤亡最惨重的一次。地震造成四川、甘肃、陕西等省的灾区直接经济损失共8451亿元人民币，灾区的卫生、住房、校舍、通讯、交通、治安、地貌、水利、生态、少数民族文化等方面受到严重破坏。地震灾情引起民间强烈回响，全中国以至全球纷纷捐款，累积捐款额超过500亿元人民币。中国军方调动了和平时代以来规模最庞大的队伍进行救灾，中国民间的大批志愿者和来自中国各地以及世界各国的专业人道救援队伍也加入救灾。震后中国政府宣布投入一万亿元人民币、用三年时间进行地震灾区的重建工作，计划在2010年基本实现目标。
