China
Nurses in action after quake jolts SW China
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| Medical staff and nurses transfer the newborns to a provisional rendezvous at open space, in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 12, 2008. Chengdu felt strong aftershocks on Tuesday morning, after 9,219 people died in Monday's powerful earthquake, the worst to strike China since the Tangshan earthquake in north China's Hebei Province in 1976, which claimed 242,000 lives.The Sichuan Earthquake Networks reported at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday that they recorded 1,180 aftershocks in the past three hours, with the strongest measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale. The aftershocks included two measuring 6.0 and 11 ones measuring between 5.0 and 5.9. (Xinhua Photo) |
