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Monitoring and prevention efforts will be stepped up as secondary geological events present a tremendous challenge for disaster relief in quake-hit areas.
Collapsed houses and broken roads, devastated by Saturday's magnitude-7 earthquake in Lushan, Sichuan province, are all too familiar to soldier Zhu Yunping.
President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts to prevent fresh casualties caused by secondary disasters like landslides after a major quake hit Sichuan.
Lawmakers attending a bimonthly legislative session on Thursday stood in silent tribute for the victims of Saturday's deadly quake that jolted Southwest China's Sichuan province.
A total of 196 people are dead and 21 are missing in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province.
No major epidemic nor emergency health incidents have occurred in Lushan County, Southwest China's Sichuan province, after it was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday, a local official said on Thursday.
Local authorities have initiated an emergency plan to meet people's needs for make-shift toilets in Lushan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, after it was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday, said an official on Thursday.
A 78-year-old man was rescued on Wednesday afternoon in Baoxing county of Ya'an city in Southwest China's Sichuan province, five days after an earthquake hit the area, according to the municipal government on Thursday.
A baby who survived the Wenchuan earthquake and its aftermath five years ago perished in the Lushan quake on Saturday.
NBA announced Thursday that NBA teams and players will donate one million yuan ($162,000) to support earthquake relief efforts in Southwest China.
More than 4,000 residents in Tianquan county, Ya’an, Sichuan province, are without their natural water supplies since Tuesday after goldfish used to test the river quality died.
Two successive earthquakes measuring 4.8 and 4.2 magnitude jolted Yibin city, Sichuan province, on Thursday morning, leaving 47 people injured and thousands of houses damaged.