Last year China experienced an earthquake that left 90,000 people dead or missing and left 5 million homeless. It reached a magnitude of 7.9.This earthquake is known as the Sichuan Earthquake and happened in May, 2008. The earthquake destroyed the towns of Yingxiu, Beichuan and Nanba, which the study found are near shallow fault intersections that experience particularly strong quake motion when ruptured. The earthquake occured along the Longmenshan fault between the Indian and Eurasian plates, two converging plates. The earthquake occured in two stages the first ripping about seven yards while the next sheared four yards.
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