May 12, 2021 marks the 13th anniversary of the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
May 12, 2008, 2:28 p.m., a magnitude-8.0 quake from around 10 to 20 kilometers below the ground hit Wenchuan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Two minutes of violent shaking turned to be unimaginably fateful. It was the strongest earthquake in China since 1949.
The hardest-hit areas covered 130,000 square kilometers. With nearly 70,000 people killed and 18,000 missin