Divyanshu67/squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

The Longmen Shan Fault System is situated in the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau and contains several faults. This earthquake ruptured at least two imbricate structures in Longmen Shan Fault System, i.e. the Beichuan Fault and the Guanxian–Anxian Fault. In the epicentral area, the average slip in Beichuan Fault was about 3.5 metres (11 ft) vertical, 3.5 metres (11 ft) horizontal-parallel to the fault, and 4.8 metres (16 ft) horizontal-perpendicular to the fault. In the area about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of the epicenter, the surface slip on Beichuan Fault was almost purely dextral strike-slip up to about 3 metres (9.8 ft), while the average slip in Guanxian–Anxian Fault was about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) vertical and 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) horizontal.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Office buildings in Shanghai's financial district, including the Jin Mao Tower and the Hong Kong New World Tower, were evacuated. A receptionist at the Tibet Hotel in Chengdu said things were "calm" after the hotel evacuated its guests. Meanwhile, workers at a Ford plant in Sichuan were evacuated for about 10 minutes. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport was shut down, and the control tower and regional radar control evacuated. One SilkAir flight was diverted and landed in Kunming as a result. Cathay Pacific delayed both legs of its quadruple daily Hong Kong to London route due to this disruption in air traffic services. Chengdu Shuangliu Airport reopened later on the evening of May 12, offering limited service as the airport began to be used as a staging area for relief operations.

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

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on walls of some residential buildings in the downtown areas, but no buildings collapsed. Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics. None of the Olympic venues were damaged. Meanwhile, a cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

All of the highways into Wenchuan, and others throughout the province, were damaged, resulting in delayed arrival of the rescue troops. In Beichuan County, 80% of the buildings collapsed according to Xinhua News. In the city of Shifang, the collapse of two chemical plants led to leakage of some 80 tons of liquid ammonia, with hundreds of people reported buried. In the city of Dujiangyan, south-east of the epicenter, a whole school collapsed with 900 students buried and fewer than 60 survived. The Juyuan Middle School, where many teenagers were buried, was excavated by civilians and cranes. Dujiangyan is home of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, an ancient water diversion project which is still in use and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The project's famous Fish Mouth was cracked but not severely damaged otherwise.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange suspended trading of companies based in southwestern China. Copper rose over speculations that production in southwestern China may be affected, and oil prices dropped over speculations that demand from China would fall.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Immediately after the earthquake event, mobile and terrestrial telecommunications were cut to the affected and surrounding area, with all internet capabilities cut to the Sichuan area too. Elements of telecommunications were restored by the government piece by piece over the next number of months as the situation in the Sichuan province gradually improved. Eventually, a handful of major news and media websites were made accessible online in the region, albeit with dramatically pared back webpages.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

China Mobile had more than 2,300 base stations suspended due to power disruption or severe telecommunication traffic congestion. Half of the wireless communications were lost in the Sichuan province. China Unicom's service in Wenchuan and four nearby counties was cut off, with more than 700 towers suspended.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Initially, officials were unable to contact the Wolong National Nature Reserve, home to around 280 giant pandas. However, the Foreign Ministry later said that a group of 31 British tourists visiting the Wolong Panda Reserve in the quake-hit area returned safe and uninjured to Chengdu. Nonetheless, the well-being of an even greater number of pandas in the neighbouring panda reserves remained unknown. Five security guards at the reserve were killed by the earthquake. Six pandas escaped after their enclosures were damaged. By May 20, two pandas at the reserve were found to be injured, while the search continued for another two adult pandas that went missing after the quake. By May 28, 2008, one panda was still missing. The missing panda was later found dead under the rubble of an enclosure. Nine-year-old Mao Mao, a mother of five at the breeding center, was discovered on Monday, her body crushed by a wall in her enclosure. Panda keepers and other workers placed her remains in a small wooden crate and buried her outside the breeding centre.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

The Zipingpu Hydropower Plant (simplified Chinese: 紫坪铺水库; traditional Chinese: 紫坪鋪水庫) located 20 km east of the epicenter was damaged. A recent inspection indicated that the damage was less severe than initially feared, and it remains structurally stable and safe. The Tulong reservoir upstream is in danger of collapse. About 2,000 troops have been allocated to Zipingpu, trying to release the pressure through spillway. In total, 391 dams, most of them small, were reported damaged by the quake.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

According to Chinese state officials, the quake caused 69,180 known deaths including 68,636 in Sichuan province; 18,498 people are listed as missing, and 374,176 injured, but these figures may further increase as more reports come in.[dated info] This estimate includes 158 earthquake relief workers who were killed in landslides as they tried to repair roads.

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

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

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

Question: What were the 158 relief workers doing when they were killed?
Answer: tried to repair roads
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

One rescue team reported only 2,300 survivors from the town of Yingxiu in Wenchuan County, out of a total population of about 9,000. 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan County, Sichuan alone; in the same location, 10,000 people were injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. The old county seat of Beichuan was abandoned and preserved as part of the Beichuan Earthquake Museum. Eight schools were toppled in Dujiangyan. A 56-year-old was killed in Dujiangyan during a rescue attempt on the Lingyanshan Ropeway, where due to the earthquake 11 tourists from Taiwan had been trapped inside cable cars since May 13. A 4-year-old boy named Zhu Shaowei (traditional Chinese: 朱紹維; simplified Chinese: 朱绍维; pinyin: Zhū Shàowéi) was also killed in Mianzhu City when a house collapsed on him and another was reported missing.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Experts point out that the earthquake hit an area that has been largely neglected and untouched by China's economic rise. Health care is poor in inland areas such as Sichuan, highlighting the widening gap between prosperous urban dwellers and struggling rural people. Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang told reporters in Beijing that the "public health care system in China is insufficient." The Vice Minister of Health also suggested that the government would pick up the costs of care to earthquake victims, many of whom have little or no insurance: "The government should be responsible for providing medical treatment to them," he said.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

In terms of school casualties, thousands of school children died due to shoddy construction. In Mianyang City, seven schools collapsed, burying at least 1,700 people. At least 7,000 school buildings throughout the province collapsed. Another 700 students were buried in a school in Hanwang. At least 600 students and staff died at Juyuan Elementary School. Up to 1,300 children and teachers died at Beichuan Middle School.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Details of school casualties had been under non-governmental investigation since December 2008 by volunteers including artist and architect Ai Weiwei, who had been constantly posting updates on his blog since March 2009. The official tally of students killed in the earthquake was not released until May 7, 2009, almost a year after the earthquake. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the earthquake killed 5,335 students and left another 546 children disabled. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the Chinese government declared that parents who had lost their only children would get free treatment from fertility clinics to reverse vasectomies and tubal ligations conducted by family planning authorities.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

The earthquake left at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million. Millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million total. Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reported official estimates of insurers' losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake; estimated total damages exceed US$20 billion. It values Chengdu, at the time having an urban population of 4.5 million people, at around US$115 billion, with only a small portion covered by insurance.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, pointed out that the massive damage of properties and houses in the earthquake area was because China did not create an adequate seismic design code until after the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake. DesRoches said: "If the buildings were older and built prior to that 1976 earthquake, chances are they weren't built for adequate earthquake forces."

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

In the days following the disaster, an international reconnaissance team of engineers was dispatched to the region to make a detailed preliminary survey of damaged buildings. Their findings show a variety of reasons why many constructions failed to withstand the 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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

News reports indicate that the poorer, rural villages were hardest hit. Swaminathan Krishnan, assistant professor of civil engineering and geophysics at the California Institute of Technology said: "the earthquake occurred in the rural part of China. Presumably, many of the buildings were just built; they were not designed, so to speak." Swaminathan Krishnan further added: "There are very strong building codes in China, which take care of earthquake issues and seismic design issues. But many of these buildings presumably were quite old and probably were not built with any regulations overseeing them."

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Even with the five largest cities in Sichuan suffering only minor damage from the quake, some estimates of the economic loss run higher than US$75 billion, making the earthquake one of the costliest natural disasters in Chinese history.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Strong aftershocks continued to strike even months after the main quake. On May 25, an aftershock of 6.0 Mw (6.4 Ms according to CEA) hit northeast of the original earthquake's epicenter, in Qingchuan County, Sichuan, causing eight deaths, 1000 injuries, and destroying thousands of buildings. On May 27, two aftershocks, one 5.2 Mw in Qingchuan County and one 5.7 Mw in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, led to the collapse of more than 420,000 homes and injured 63 people. The same area suffered two more aftershocks of 5.6 and 6.0 Ms (5.8 and 5.5 Mw, respectively, according to USGS) on July 23, resulting in 1 death, 6 serious injuries, collapse of hundreds of homes and damaging kilometers of highways. Pingwu County and Beichuan County, Sichuan, also northeast of Wenchuan and close to the epicenter of a 7.2 Ms earthquake in 1976, suffered a 6.1 Ms aftershock (5.7 Mw according to USGS) on August 1; it caused 2 deaths, 345 injuries, collapse of 707 homes, damages to over 1,000 homes, and blocked 25 kilometres (16 mi) of country roads. As late as August 5, yet another aftershock of 6.1 Ms (6.2 Mw according to USGS) hit Qingchuan, Sichuan, causing 1 death, 32 injuries, telecommunication interruptions, and widespread hill slides blocking roads in the area including a national highway.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Executive vice governor Wei Hong confirmed on November 21, 2008 that more than 90,000 people in total were dead or missing in the earthquake. He stated that 200,000 homes had been rebuilt, and 685,000 were under reconstruction, but 1.94 million households were still without permanent shelter. 1,300 schools had been reconstructed, with initial relocation of 25 townships, including Beichuan and Wenchuan, two of the most devastated areas. The government spent $441 billion on relief and reconstruction efforts.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

General Secretary and President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Soon afterward, the Ministry of Health said that it had sent ten emergency medical teams to Wenchuan County. On the same day, the Chengdu Military Region Command dispatched 50,000 troops and armed police to help with disaster relief work in Wenchuan County. However, due to the rough terrain and close proximity of the quake's epicenter, the soldiers found it very difficult to get help to the rural regions of the province.

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
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The National Disaster Relief Commission initiated a "Level II emergency contingency plan", which covers the most serious class of natural disasters. The plan rose to Level I at 22:15 CST, May 12.

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

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

An earthquake emergency relief team of 184 people (consisting of 12 people from the State Seismological Bureau, 150 from the Beijing Military Area Command, and 22 from the Armed Police General Hospital) left Beijing from Nanyuan Airport late May 12 in two military transport planes to travel to Wenchuan County.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

In the China Digital Times an article reports a close analysis by an alleged Chinese construction engineer known online as “Book Blade” (书剑子), who stated:

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

On Children's Day, June 1, 2008, many parents went to the rubble of schools to mourn for their children. The surviving children, who were mostly living in relief centres, performed ceremonies marking the special day, but also acknowledging the earthquake.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

Central State-owned enterprises have accumulatively donated more than $48.6 million. China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec donated 10 million yuan each to the disaster area.

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
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

On May 16 China stated it had also received $457 million in donated money and goods for rescue efforts so far, including $83 million from 19 countries and four international organizations. Saudi Arabia was the largest aid donor to China, providing close to €40,000,000 in financial assistance, and an additional €8,000,000 worth of relief materials.

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

Question: How many international organizations made donations?
Answer: four
2008_Sichuan_earthquake

In 2008, State Council established a counterpart support plan (《汶川地震灾后恢复重建对口支援方案》). The plan is to arrange 19 eastern and central province and municipalitie to help 18 counties, on "one province to one affected county" basis. The plan spanned 3 years, and cost no less than one percent of the province or municipality's budget.

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
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An article in Science suggested that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake. The chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau said 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. The effect was "25 times more" than a year's worth of natural stress from tectonic movement. The government had disregarded warnings about so many large-scale dam projects in a seismically active area. Researchers have been denied access to seismological and geological data to examine the cause of the quake further.

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
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The earthquake also provided opportunities for researchers to retrofit data in order to model future earthquake predictions. Using data from the Intermagnet Lanzhou geomagnetic observatory, geologists Lazo Pekevski from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in Macedonia and Strachimir Mavrodiev from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences attempted to establish a "time prediction method" through collecting statistics on geomagnetism with tidal gravitational potential. Using this method, they were said to have predicted the time of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake with an accuracy of ±1 day. The same study, however, acknowledges the limitation of earthquake prediction models, and does not mention that the location of the quake could be accurately predicted.

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
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In 2002, Chinese geologist Chen Xuezhong published a Seismic Risk Analysis study in which he came to the conclusion that beginning with 2003, attention should be paid to the possibility of an earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.0 occurring in Sichuan region. He based his study on statistical correlation. That Sichuan is a seismically active area has been discussed for years prior to the quake, though few studies point to a specific date and time.

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
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The earthquake was the worst to strike the Sichuan area in over 30 years. Following the quake, experts and the general public sought information on whether or not the earthquake could have been predicted in advance, and whether or not studying statistics related to the quake could result in better prediction of earthquakes in the future. Earthquake prediction is not yet established science; there was no consensus within the scientific community that earthquake "prediction" is possible.

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
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Many rescue teams, including that of the Taipei Fire Department from Taiwan, were reported ready to join the rescue effort in Sichuan as early as Wednesday. However, the Red Cross Society of China said that (on May 13) "it was inconvenient currently due to the traffic problem to the hardest hit areas closest to the epicenter." The Red Cross Society of China also stated that the disaster areas need tents, medical supplies, drinking water and food; however it recommended donating cash instead of other items, as it had not been possible to reach roads that were completely damaged or places that were blocked off by landslides. Landslides continuously threatened the progress of a search and rescue group of 80 men, each carrying about 40 kg of relief supplies, from a motorized infantry brigade under commander Yang Wenyao, as they tried to reach the ethnically Tibetan village of Sier at a height of 4000 m above sea level in Pingwu county. The extreme terrain conditions precluded the use of helicopter evacuation, and over 300 of the Tibetan villagers were stranded in their demolished village for five days without food and water before the rescue group finally arrived to help the injured and stranded villagers down the mountain.

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
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Persistent heavy rain and landslides in Wenchuan County and the nearby area badly affected rescue efforts. At the start of rescue operations on May 12, 20 helicopters were deployed for the delivery of food, water, and emergency aid, and also the evacuation of the injured and reconnaissance of quake-stricken areas. By 17:37 CST on May 13, a total of over 15,600 troops and militia reservists from the Chengdu Military Region had joined the rescue force in the heavily affected areas. A commander reported from Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan, that around 3,000 survivors were found, while the status of the other inhabitants (around 9,000) remained unclear. The 1,300 rescuers reached the epicenter, and 300 pioneer troops reached the seat of Wenchuan at about 23:30 CST. By 12:17 CST, May 14, 2008, communication in the seat of Wenchuan was partly revived. On the afternoon of May 14, 15 Special Operations Troops, along with relief supplies and communications gear, parachuted into inaccessible Mao County, northeast of Wenchuan.

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
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By May 15, Premier Wen Jiabao ordered the deployment of an additional 90 helicopters, of which 60 were to be provided by the PLAAF, and 30 were to be provided by the civil aviation industry, bringing the total of number of aircraft deployed in relief operations by the air force, army, and civil aviation to over 150, resulting in the largest non-combat airlifting operation in People's Liberation Army history.

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
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Beijing accepted the aid of the Tzu Chi Foundation from Taiwan late on May 13. Tzu Chi was the first force from outside the People's Republic of China to join the rescue effort. China stated it would gratefully accept international help to cope with the quake.

Question: What Foundation wanted to aid Beijing?
Answer: the Tzu Chi Foundation

Question: Where was the foundation based?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: When did Beijing agree to aid from Taiwan?
Answer: late on May 13

Question: What was the first group from outside China to join in the relief operation?
Answer: Tzu Chi Foundation

Question: What did China say they would accept?
Answer: international help

Question: What did China need help for?
Answer: cope with the quake
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A direct chartered cargo flight was made by China Airlines from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport sending some 100 tons of relief supplies donated by the Tzu Chi Foundation and the Red Cross Society of Taiwan to the affected areas. Approval from mainland Chinese authorities was sought, and the chartered flight departed Taipei at 17:00 CST, May 15 and arrived in Chengdu by 20:30 CST. A rescue team from the Red Cross in Taiwan was also scheduled to depart Taipei on a Mandarin Airlines direct chartered flight to Chengdu at 15:00 CST on May 16.

Question: Who made a direct chartered cargo flight?
Answer: China Airlines

Question: What date did the cargo flight leave?
Answer: May 15

Question: When did a rescue team depart?
Answer: May 16

Question: How did the move the relief supplies from Taiwan to the stricken area?
Answer: chartered cargo flight

Question: From what airport did the chartered flight leave?
Answer: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Question: Where did the chartered flight from Taiwan land?
Answer: Chengdu

Question: What Red Cross team left Taipei on May 16
Answer: rescue team

Question: Where did the Red Cross team from Taiwan land?
Answer: Chengdu
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On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort. The United States shared some of its satellite images of the quake-stricken areas with Chinese authorities. During the weekend, the US sent into China two U.S. Air Force C-17's carrying supplies, which included tents and generators. Xinhua reported 135,000 Chinese troops and medics were involved in the rescue effort across 58 counties and cities.

Question: What did the US share?
Answer: satellite images of the quake-stricken areas

Question: Who did the US share the satellite images with?
Answer: Chinese authorities

Question: How many Chinese troops were involved in the rescue efforts?
Answer: 135,000

Question: When did groups from South Korea, Japan, and others arrive in China?
Answer: May 16

Question: What did the U.S. share with China?
Answer: satellite images

Question: What was included in the the Air Force C-17 supplies?
Answer: tents and generators

Question: How many Chinese troops and medics were involved in the relief efforts?
Answer: 135,000
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The Internet was extensively used for passing information to aid rescue and recovery efforts. For example, the official news agency Xinhua set up an online rescue request center in order to find the blind spots of disaster recovery. After knowing that rescue helicopters had trouble landing into the epicenter area in Wenchuan, a student proposed a landing spot online and it was chosen as the first touchdown place for the helicopters[not in citation given]. Volunteers also set up several websites to help store contact information for victims and evacuees. On May 31, a rescue helicopter carrying earthquake survivors and crew members crashed in fog and turbulence in Wenchuan county. No-one survived.

Question: What was extensively used to pass information to aid rescue and recovery efforts?
Answer: The Internet

Question: What did the Xinhua news agency set up?
Answer: an online rescue request center

Question: What was the purpose of this online rescue request center?
Answer: to find the blind spots of disaster recovery

Question: Where did rescue helicopters have trouble landing?
Answer: Wenchuan

Question: What was used as a communications aid in the relief efforts?
Answer: The Internet

Question: Who set up an online site to focus on blind spots in recovery?
Answer: news agency Xinhua

Question: What person suggested a landing spot for helicopters near the epicenter?
Answer: a student

Question: What kind of information were websites set up to store?
Answer: contact information

Question: On what date did a rescue helicopter crash with no survivors?
Answer: May 31
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On May 12, 2009, China marked the first anniversary of the quake with a moment of silence as people across the nation remembered the dead. The government also opened access to the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat for three days, after which it will be frozen in time as a state earthquake relic museum, to remind people of the terrible disaster. There were also several concerts across the country to raise money for the survivors of the quake.

Question: What was done for the anniversary?
Answer: a moment of silence

Question: Where did the government open access to?
Answer: the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat

Question: How long was it opened for?
Answer: three days

Question: What did China do to mark the first anniversary of the quake?
Answer: a moment of silence

Question: What will the Beichuan county seat be used for?
Answer: earthquake relic museum

Question: What kind of event were given to raise money for quake survivors?
Answer: several concerts

Question: What is the Beichuan museum meant to remind people of?
Answer: the terrible disaster