Date & Time | 12 May 2008, at 2:28pm |
Magnitude | 8.0 on the Richter Scale |
Significance | The most powerful earthquake since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 |
Area of Damage | Over 100,000 km2 across Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces |
Number of aftershocks | 52,040 (from 12 May 2008 to 15 April 2009) |
Magnitude of the largest aftershock | 6.4 on Richter Scale |
Number of dead | 69,227 |
Number of injured | 374,643 |
Number of missing | 17,923 |
Direct economic loss | RMB 845.14 billion |