China Quake Disaster: The Numbers

By U.S. News Staff

May 22, 2008 RSS Feed Print

The latest facts about the May 12 earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province, the country's worst in 30 years:

Magnitude: measured at 7.9 by the U.S. Geological Survey; 8.0 by Chinese officials
Disaster area population: 20 million
Dead: 51,151
Missing: 29,328
Injured: 288,431
Homeless: 5 million
Classrooms destroyed: 6,898
Orphans: 4,000
Tents needed: 3.3 million
Animals killed: 12.5 million
Company losses: $9.5 billion
Reconstruction: $10 billion fund set up by government

Sources: Associated Press and the Chinese government

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