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China's Earthquake Disaster: Days 5-7 Crisis Situations | Remembering 2008 Tragedy

Explore the unfolding crisis in the aftermath of China's earthquake disaster in May 2008, involving landslides, flood risks, evacuations, and mass burials. Witness the resilience and tragedy during the three-day official mourning period.

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China's Earthquake Disaster: Days 5-7 Crisis Situations | Remembering 2008 Tragedy

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  1. REMEMBERING CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE DISASTER. Part IIThe Crisis Situations of Days 5-7MAY 16-18, 2008 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. THE DISASTER BEGAN ON MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008

  3. CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: DAYS 5-7 The disaster, which began at 2:28 pm on Monday, May 12, 2008, unfolded day-by-day.

  4. DAYS 5 - 7: A CRISIS SITUATION UNFOLDS • Main-shock and aftershock-triggered landslides not only hindered search and rescue efforts, but ALSO created debris dams, damming rivers upstream from Beichuan

  5. BEICHUAN: BEFORE QUAKE TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES

  6. BEICHUAN: AFTER QUAKE TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES

  7. JINGXIU: LANDSLIDES

  8. MIANZHU: LANDSLIDES

  9. HANWANG: LANDSLIDES

  10. DAYS 5 - 7: A CRISIS SITUATION UNFOLDS • In addition, may engineered dams were damaged, exacerbating the flood risk to Beichuan and other communities in the epicentral area.

  11. SOLDIERS REPAIR CRACKS IN ZIPINGPU DAM:DUJIANGYAN

  12. DAYS 5 - 7: A CRISIS SITUATION UNFOLDS • Mass evacuations to get people out of harm’s way became the most urgent need as it became more and more evident that the partially dammed rivers were creating a major flood risk.

  13. Warned by government officials, survivors in Beichuan (100 km; 60 miles south) and other towns down river evacuated as fast as possible, using every available means. THOUSANDS EVACUATE

  14. EVACUATION TO ESCAPE FLOOD THREAT

  15. FLEEING POSSIBLE FLOODING

  16. EVACUATING

  17. EVERYONE GOES

  18. A 3-day period of mourning was officially announced on Monday, May 19th DAY 7

  19. THREE DAYS OF OFFICIAL MOURNING BEGIN: HANWANG

  20. The Olympic Torch Relay was suspended to reflect the country’s anguish. DAY 7

  21. Mass burials began to be accelerated to reduce danger of disease. DAY 7

  22. MASS BURIALS AND THREE DAYS OF OFFICIAL MOURNING

  23. EVENTUALLY, THE MORTALITY TOLL OF THE DISASTER REACHED 80,000

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