Question: What is the number of missing persons?
Answer: 18,498

Question: What were the 158 relief workers doing when they were killed?
Answer: tried to repair roads

Question: How many survivors were there from Yingxiu?
Answer: 2,300

Question: Where is Yingxiu located?
Answer: in Wenchuan

Question: How many people in total lived in Yingxiu?
Answer: 9,000

Question: How many people were killed in Beichuan County?
Answer: 3,000 to 5,000

Question: How many people were injured in Beichuan County?
Answer: 10,000

Question: How many survivors were there in the town of Yingxiu?
Answer: 2,300

Question: What was the previous population of Yingxiu?
Answer: about 9,000

Question: How many residents were killed in Beichuan County?
Answer: 3,000 to 5,000

Question: How large was the number of injured in Beichuan County?
Answer: 10,000

Question: What is the number of schools that collapsed in Dujiangyan?
Answer: Eight schools

Question: What is poor about inland areas such as Sichuan?
Answer: Health care

Question: Who was the Vice Minister of Health?
Answer: Gao Qiang

Question: What did Gao Qiang tell reporters in Beijing?
Answer: public health care system in China is insufficient

Question: How economically forward has this area been?
Answer: neglected and untouched

Question: Where is health care poor in China?
Answer: inland areas

Question: What did the Vice Minster of Health call the public health system in China?
Answer: insufficient

Question: What should the government of China be responsible for providing to earthquake survivors?
Answer: medical treatment

Question: How many school children died due to shoddy construction?
Answer: thousands

Question: How many schools collapsed in Mianyang City?
Answer: seven

Question: How many people were buried in the collapsed schools?
Answer: 1,700

Question: How many school buildings collapsed in the province?
Answer: 7,000

Question: How many students were buried in a school in Hanwang?
Answer: 700

Question: What caused the deaths of many school children?
Answer: shoddy construction

Question: How many schools collapsed in Mianyang City
Answer: seven

Question: How many people were buried under rubble in Mianyang City?
Answer: 1,700

Question: How many school buildings fell in the entire province?
Answer: 7,000

Question: How many were killed at the Juyuan Elementary School?
Answer: 600

Question: When did an investigation occur under school casualties?
Answer: December 2008

Question: When was the official tally of students killed in the earthquake released?
Answer: May 7, 2009

Question: How many students were killed in Xinhua?
Answer: 5,335

Question: How many students were disabled in Xinhua?
Answer: 546

Question: What date were the official numbers of students killed in the earthquake released?
Answer: May 7, 2009

Question: Who kept a blog about the school deaths?
Answer: Ai Weiwei

Question: What is the total of school children killed?
Answer: 5,335

Question: How many children are disabled?
Answer: 546

Question: Where did the Chinese government decide that parents who had lost children could go for free treatment?
Answer: fertility clinics

Question: How many people were left without housing?
Answer: 5 million

Question: How many people could be potentially without housing?
Answer: 11 million

Question: How many animals were killed?
Answer: 12.5 million

Question: How many pigs died in Sichuan?
Answer: 1 million

Question: Because of the earthquake, how many people did not have housing?
Answer: at least 5 million

Question: How many people might actually be homeless?
Answer: 11 million

Question: How much livestock was lost?
Answer: 12.5 million animals

Question: How many pigs died from the earthquake in Sichuan ?
Answer: a million

Question: Who was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech?
Answer: Reginald DesRoches

Question: What is the profession of Reginald DesRoches?
Answer: professor of civil and environmental engineering

Question: When did China create a seismic design code for building?
Answer: 1976

Question: What catastrophe inspired them to make a building design code/ 
Answer: Tangshan earthquake

Question: What happened days following the disaster?
Answer: an international reconnaissance team of engineers was dispatched to the region

Question: What did the team of engineers do?
Answer: make a detailed preliminary survey of damaged buildings

Question: What did their findings show?
Answer: a variety of reasons why many constructions failed to withstand the earthquake.

Question: After the quake what kind of international team was sent to the area?
Answer: team of engineers

Question: What was the team sent to China to make?
Answer: survey of damaged buildings

Question: What kind of reasons do their findings show?
Answer: variety of reasons

Question: What areas were the hardest hit?
Answer: the poorer, rural villages

Question: Who was an assistant professor of civil engineering and geophysics at the California Institute of Technology?
Answer: Swaminathan Krishnan

Question: What part of China did the earthquake occur in?
Answer: rural part

Question: What did Swaminathan Krishnan mean when he said the buildings were just built?
Answer: not designed

Question: What manner of building codes are there in China?
Answer: very strong

Question: What were many of these old buildings built without?
Answer: regulations

Question: What is an estimate of the economic loss from the quake?
Answer: $75 billion

Question: What damage did the major Sichuan cities have?
Answer: minor damage

Question: What is an estimate of losses to economics?
Answer: US$75 billion

Question: Whose is this one of the costliest disasters in history of?
Answer: Chinese history

Question: Which cities in Sichuan had minor damage?
Answer: five largest cities

Question: How many buildings collapsed as a result of the May 27th aftershocks?
Answer: 420,000

Question: How strong was the May 25 aftershock in Qingchuan county?
Answer: 6.0 Mw

Question: How many people were injured in the May 25 aftershock?
Answer: 1000

Question: How many homes were destroyed because of the May 27 aftershocks?
Answer: more than 420,000

Question: During the May 27 aftershock, how many people were injured?
Answer: 63

Question: Where was the aftershock of August 5 that caused widespread hill slides?
Answer: Qingchuan, Sichuan

Question: Who was the executive vice governor?
Answer: Wei Hong

Question: How many homes were rebuilt?
Answer: 200,000

Question: How many homes were left without permanent shelter?
Answer: 1.94 million

Question: How many schools were reconstructed?
Answer: 1,300

Question: Who spoke about the dead and missing people on November 21, 2008?
Answer: Wei Hong

Question: How many people did Wei Hong say were dead or missing?
Answer: 90,000

Question: How many homes had been rebuilt?
Answer: 200,000

Question: How many houses were still under construction?
Answer: 685,000

Question: How many families were still without permanent homes?
Answer: 1.94 million

Question: Who flew to the earthquake area 90 minutes after it hit?
Answer: Premier Wen Jiabao

Question: What was Premier Wen Jiabao's background in?
Answer: geomechanics

Question: What did Jiabao oversee in the region?
Answer: the rescue work

Question: How many troops were dispatched by the Chengdu military?
Answer: 50,000

Question: How soon after the earthquake was Premier Wen Jiabao on his way to the area?
Answer: 90 minutes after

Question: How many medical teams were sent to Wenchuan county?
Answer: ten

Question: How many troops were sent to the area for relief work?
Answer: 50,000

Question: Besides the rough terrain, why was it difficult to get to the area?
Answer: proximity of the quake's epicenter

Question: What did the National Disaster Relief Commission initiate?
Answer: Level II emergency contingency plan

Question: What does a Level II emergency contingency plan cover?
Answer: the most serious class of natural disasters