Question: When did the plan rise to Level I?
Answer: at 22:15 CST, May 12

Question: What level alert was instated for the quake?
Answer: Level II emergency

Question: What class of disasters is a level II emergency?
Answer: most serious

Question: What level was the disaster set at 22:15 CST, May 12?
Answer: Level II

Question: What department initiated the emergency contingency plan?
Answer: National Disaster Relief Commission

Question: How many people were in the earthquake emergency relief team?
Answer: 184

Question: How many of the relief team were from the State Seismological Bureau?
Answer: 12

Question: How many of the team were from the military?
Answer: 150

Question: How many of the team were from the police?
Answer: 22

Question: What kind of team left Beijing to go to Wenchuan?
Answer: earthquake emergency relief

Question: How many people comprised the relief team?
Answer: 184

Question: How many soldiers were from the Beijing Military?
Answer: 150

Question: Where did 22 of the relief team come from?
Answer: Armed Police General Hospital

Question: How did the relief team travel to Wenchuan county?
Answer: in two military transport planes

Question: What did the China Digital Times report?
Answer: a close analysis by an alleged Chinese construction engineer

Question: Who was the construction engineer known as?
Answer: Book Blade

Question: Where was an article reported about the scandal?
Answer: China Digital Times

Question: What was the name of the person who published a report in the China Digital Times?
Answer: Book Blade

Question: What was June 1, 2008 called?
Answer: Children's Day

Question: Where were most of the surviving children?
Answer: living in relief centres

Question: What did these children do on that day?
Answer: performed ceremonies

Question: Where did parents go to mourn their children?
Answer: rubble of schools

Question: When is Children's Day?
Answer: June 1

Question: Where were surviving children living?
Answer: in relief centres

Question: How much did central state-owned enterprises donate?
Answer: more than $48.6 million

Question: How much did China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec donate?
Answer: 10 million yuan

Question: How much have Central state enterprises donated?
Answer: 48.6 million

Question: How much did China National Petroleum and Sinopec donate?
Answer: 10 million yuan each

Question: How much did China receive in donated money and goods?
Answer: $457 million

Question: How many countries donated?
Answer: 19 countries

Question: How many international organizations donated?
Answer: four

Question: What country was the largest aid donor to China?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: How much financial assistance did Saudi Arabia give China?
Answer: €40,000,000

Question: How much money was donated from foreign sources?
Answer: 83 million

Question: How many international organizations made donations?
Answer: four

Question: What did the State Council establish in 2008?
Answer: a counterpart support plan

Question: How long did the plan last?
Answer: 3 years

Question: What did the state council set up in 2008?
Answer: counterpart support plan

Question: What is the basis for this plan?
Answer: one province to one affected county

Question: How long is the plan due to last?
Answer: 3 years

Question: What is the cost per province's budget?
Answer: one percent

Question: What was concluded about the construction?
Answer: that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and could have increased the direct pressure on it, causing a violent rupture

Question: What structure did an article contemplate could have caused the quake?
Answer: Zipingpu Dam

Question: What was the affect of the dam on the stresses in that area?
Answer: 25 times more

Question: Who disregarded warnings about dams in the area?
Answer: The government

Question: What type of area is Sichuan?
Answer: seismically active

Question: What have researchers been denied?
Answer: access to seismological and geological data

Question: What did the earthquake allow?
Answer: opportunities for researchers to retrofit data in order to model future earthquake predictions

Question: What did the professors predict?
Answer: the time of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Question: What did they try to establish?
Answer: time prediction method

Question: What did they collect to use in this method?
Answer: statistics

Question: What was stated in the press conference?
Answer: that earthquake prediction was a global issue

Question: What do many geologists believe about earthquake prediction?
Answer: no proven methods exist

Question: What kind of issue is earthquake prediction?
Answer: a global issue

Question: What was received before the quake occurred?
Answer: no prediction notification

Question: What did  seismologist Gary Gibson have to say about the prediction of the quake?
Answer: did not see anything

Question: When was a Seismic Risk Analysis published?
Answer: In 2002

Question: Who published the Seismic Risk Analysis?
Answer: Chen Xuezhong

Question: Who published a Seismic Risk Analysis Study?
Answer: Chen Xuezhong

Question: In what year did Chen Xuezhong publish an earthquake study?
Answer: 2002

Question: What strength did he predict the next quake in Sichuan to be?
Answer: over 7.0

Question: How long had it been since an earthquake of similar magnitude?
Answer: over 30 years

Question: How long since the Sichuan area has had  a severe quake?
Answer: 30 years

Question: Does the scientific community agree that earthquake prediction is possible?
Answer: no consensus

Question: People wanted to know if the study of what math could produce better predictions?
Answer: statistics

Question: What is not an established science?
Answer: Earthquake prediction

Question: What department was ready to join the rescue effort by Wednesday?
Answer: the Taipei Fire Department

Question: How many Tibetan villagers were stranded?
Answer: over 300

Question: What was the reason that many rescue teams could not join the relief efforts?
Answer: the traffic problem

Question: What action did the Red Cross recommend ?
Answer: donating cash

Question: What problem continued to stop rescue teams from reaching affected areas?
Answer: landslides

Question: Where were the soldiers under commander Yang Wenyao trying to go?
Answer: Tibetan village of Sier

Question: What natural disasters were occurring in Wenchuan County?
Answer: landslides

Question: How many helicopters were deployed?
Answer: 20

Question: How many militia reservists joined in on rescue efforts?
Answer: 15,600

Question: How many survivors were found?
Answer: around 3,000

Question: How many troops parachuted into Mao County?
Answer: 15

Question: What were the biggest difficulties in reaching affected areas?
Answer: heavy rain and landslides

Question: How many helicopters were sent to deliver aid to the affected areas?
Answer: 20

Question: By May 13, how many troops had been added to the rescue efforts?
Answer: 15,600

Question: How people were reported to be survivors in Yingxiu Town?
Answer: around 3,000

Question: How many persons were still unaccounted for in Yingxiu?
Answer: around 9,000

Question: What did Premier Wen Jiabao order?
Answer: the deployment of an additional 90 helicopters

Question: How many helicopters were provided by the PLAAF?
Answer: 60

Question: How many helicopter were to be provided by the civil aviation industry?
Answer: 30

Question: How many aircraft were there in total?
Answer: over 150

Question: What is the total number of aircraft used in the relief operation?
Answer: over 150

Question: How many helicopters came from the PLAAF?
Answer: 60

Question: Who provided the other 30 helicopters?
Answer: civil aviation industry

Question: What kind of operation did this massing of aircraft produce?
Answer: non-combat airlifting