1. REMEMBERING CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
REMEMBERING CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE DISASTER. Part II The Crisis Situations of Days 5-7 MAY 16-18, 2008
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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.

12. SOLDIERS REPAIR CRACKS IN ZIPINGPU DAM:DUJIANGYAN

13. 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.

14. THOUSANDS EVACUATE
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.

15. EVACUATION TO ESCAPE FLOOD THREAT

16. FLEEING POSSIBLE FLOODING

17. EVACUATING

18. EVERYONE GOES

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

20. THREE DAYS OF OFFICIAL MOURNING BEGIN: HANWANG

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

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

23. MASS BURIALS AND THREE DAYS OF OFFICIAL MOURNING

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