[G274]Yushu Earthquake

On April 14, 2010 at 7:49am an earthquake hit Yushu County, in QingHai Province, West China. In the town of Gyegu, most of the wood-earth buildings collapsed, 70% of the 192 schools of the County were destroyed and 87 of the 238 buddhist temples were reduced to rubble.

 

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