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06 Dec 2016
People's Republic of China: Emergency Assistance for Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Project
An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 struck Wenchuan County on 12 May 2008, which was about 92 kilometers (km) northwest of the Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, People's Republic of China (PRC). The earthquake affected a wide area, causing extensive damages and heavy losses in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, including seven other provinces. The total disaster area covered 500,000 square kilometers, in which the 51 worst-affected counties in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces covered 130,000 square kilometers. The impacts of the earthquake were devastating.
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