Question: When did the latest magnitude 6 aftershock occur?
Answer: on August 5, 2008

Question: How many aftershocks were there within 72 hours?
Answer: Between 64 and 104

Question: What do the Chinese say is the total number of shocks after the quake?
Answer: 42,719

Question: What did the strongest aftershock measure?
Answer: 6.4 MS

Question: How many shocks ranged from 4.0 MS to 4.9 MS?
Answer: 246

Question: At what date did the most recent aftershock above 6 MS occur?
Answer: August 5, 2008

Question: When did this earthquake occur?
Answer: August 30, 2008

Question: Where did this earthquake occur?
Answer: southern Sichuan

Question: Why was it not included in the series?
Answer: because it was caused by a different fault.

Question: Where should you look for more details?
Answer: 2008 Panzhihua earthquake

Question: Where was the August 30, 2008 quake?
Answer: southern Sichuan

Question: What was the magnitude of the southern Sichuan quake?
Answer: Ms 6.1

Question: What earthquake happened in southern Sichuan?
Answer: Panzhihua earthquake

Question: Who published the map of the earthquakes intensity?
Answer: CEA

Question: What was the intensity scaled at?
Answer: XI

Question: What does the China Seismic Intensity Scale call the earthquake?
Answer: very destructive

Question: How did the USGS rate the earthquake?
Answer: very disastrous

Question: What town was closest to the main epicenter?
Answer: Yingxiu, Wenchuan

Question: Where is the Longmenshan Fault located?
Answer: the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau

Question: What is the average slip in the Beichuan Fault?
Answer: 3.5 metres

Question: How large was the slip 30 km northeast of the fault?
Answer: 3 metres

Question: What was the vertical average slip on the Guanxian-Anxian fault?
Answer: 2 metres

Question: What was the horizontal average slip on the Guanxian-Anxian fault?
Answer: 2.3 metres

Question: Where is the Longmen shan fault located?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau

Question: Where are the Beichuan and Guanxian-Anxian Faults?
Answer: Longmen Shan Fault System

Question: What was the average vertical slip in the Beichaun Fault?
Answer: 3.5 metres

Question: What was the horizontal slippage in the Beichuan Fault at the epicenter?
Answer: 3.5 metres

Question: What was the horizontal slippage perpendicular to the fault?
Answer: 4.8 metres

Question: Where were office buildings evacuated?
Answer: Shanghai's financial district

Question: How did a receptionist describe the atmosphere after the evacuation?
Answer: calm

Question: How long were workers in Ford Plant evacuated for?
Answer: 10 minutes

Question: Which airport was shut down?
Answer: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport

Question: When did the airport re-open?
Answer: May 12

Question: What happened to office buildings in Shanghai?
Answer: evacuated

Question: Why were flights delayed and diverted?
Answer: disruption in air traffic services

Question: What were they using the airport to stage for?
Answer: relief operations

Question: Where did the reporters say they saw cracks on walls of some buildings?
Answer: in Chengdu

Question: Where were office towers evacuated?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Where did a cargo train derail as a result?
Answer: Hui County, Gansu

Question: What happened to the cargo train?
Answer: caught on fire

Question: What was reported in Chengdu?
Answer: cracks on walls

Question: What was evacuated in Beijing?
Answer: office towers

Question: What part of the Olympic area was not damaged?
Answer: venues

Question: Where did a cargo train derail?
Answer: Hui County, Gansu

Question: Why did the train catch fire?
Answer: rail was distorted

Question: How many highways leading into Wenchuan were damaged?
Answer: All of the highways

Question: What percentage of building collapsed in Beichuan?
Answer: 80%

Question: Where did two chemical plants collapse?
Answer: Dujiangyan

Question: How many students out of the 900 in the school, survived the collapse?
Answer: 60

Question: What highways into Wenchuan  were damaged?
Answer: All of the highways

Question: What did the damaged roadways cause to the rescue operations?
Answer: delayed arrival

Question: How many of the buildings in Beichuan collapsed?
Answer: 80%

Question: What leaked liquid ammonia in Shifang?
Answer: two chemical plants

Question: How many of the 900 students buried in a Dujiangyan school collapse survived?
Answer: fewer than 60

Question: Where were the exchanges based?
Answer: southwestern China

Question: What metal rose in value?
Answer: Copper

Question: What natural resource dropped in value?
Answer: oil

Question: What did the Shanghai Stock Exchange do?
Answer: suspended trading

Question: Where were companies located that had their stock trading suspended?
Answer: southwestern China

Question: What metal rose due to speculation?
Answer: Copper

Question: Besides the Shanghai Stock Exchange, what other exchange suspended trading of southwestern China stock?
Answer: Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Question: What kinds of telecommunications were cut?
Answer: mobile and terrestrial

Question: What capabilities were cut to the entire Sichuan area?
Answer: internet

Question: How long did it take for these capabilities to be restored?
Answer: months

Question: What was cut after the earthquake?
Answer: telecommunications

Question: Where were the internet cut?
Answer: Sichuan area

Question: Who restored communications over a period of months?
Answer: the government

Question: What internet services were decreased in the area?
Answer: news and media websites

Question: What services were finally online again?
Answer: major news and media

Question: How many base stations did China Mobile have suspended?
Answer: 2,300

Question: How many Unicom towers were suspended?
Answer: more than 700

Question: How many China Mobile base stations stopped working?
Answer: 2,300

Question: Besides power disruption, what caused telecommunications to be suspended?
Answer: traffic congestion

Question: How many wireless communications failed in Sichuan?
Answer: Half

Question: Whose service in Wenchuan was cut off?
Answer: China Unicom

Question: How many of China Unicom's towers were cut?
Answer: 700

Question: What place could officials not contact?
Answer: the Wolong National Nature Reserve

Question: How many pandas live at the Reserve?
Answer: around 280

Question: How many British visitors to the Reserve left unharmed?
Answer: 31

Question: How many pandas were injured?
Answer: 2

Question: What nature center was cutoff?
Answer: Wolong National Nature Reserve

Question: How many pandas escaped the reserve?
Answer: Six

Question: How many security guards died at the reserve?
Answer: five

Question: What famous panda was killed under the rubble?
Answer: Mao Mao

Question: What power plant was damaged?
Answer: Hydropower Plant

Question: How far away was the plant located from the epicenter?
Answer: 20 km east

Question: How many troops were allocated to Zipingpu?
Answer: 2,000

Question: How many dams were damaged?
Answer: 391

Question: What power plant was damaged by the earthquake?
Answer: Zipingpu Hydropower Plant

Question: How near to the epicenter was the power plant?
Answer: 20 km

Question: What has a recent inspection found about the damage to the power plant?
Answer: less severe

Question: What might possibly collapse upstream from the power plant?
Answer: Tulong reservoir

Question: What is the total number of dams damaged?
Answer: 391

Question: How many deaths were reported?
Answer: 69,180

Question: How many deaths were reported only in the Sichuan province?
Answer: 68,636

Question: How many people were listed as missing?
Answer: 18,498

Question: How many people were injured?
Answer: 374,176

Question: How many earthquake relief workers were killed?
Answer: 158

Question: How many died in Sichuan?
Answer: 68,636

Question: What is the total tally of known deaths caused by the earthquake?
Answer: 69,180