On Monday, an earthquake in China measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred along a fault where south Asia pushes against the Eurasian Landmass, smashing the Sichuan Plain into mountains, leading to the Tibetan highlands. In 1989, the Loma Prieta E...
This is what's left after a magnitude 7. 9 earthquake rumbles through a city of more than 20, 000. When the side of the mountain came crashing down, a tidal wave of earth swept everything before it. The pile of wreckage is massive. Survivors make the...