Beichuan was razed to the ground in the earthquake, which was more destructive than Wenchuan. Why is it called Wenchuan Earthquake?

Because the earthquake center is Wenchuan County. The epicenter of the Wenchuan earthquake is located at the junction of Yingxiu Town and Xuankou Town, Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province (2.5km west of the Yuzixi Great Wall (China Great Wall World Heritage), at the foot of Lianhua Mountain in Niumiangou), with east longitude 103 42' and north latitude 310/'.

5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake severely damaged more than 65,438+10,000 square kilometers, including extremely hard-hit * *10 counties (cities), hard-hit ***4 1 county (city), and general disaster-hit * *186 counties.

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5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake: 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake includes counties within 50 kilometers of the epicenter and large and medium-sized cities within 200 kilometers. Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Tianjin, Qinghai, Beijing, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and Hunan.

Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangxi, Tibet, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Fujian and other provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province have obvious earthquakes.

Except Heilongjiang, Jilin and Xinjiang, China has different degrees of earthquake sensation. Among them, the earthquakes in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces are the most serious. Even the Thai capital Bangkok, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, the Philippines, Japan and other places have a sense of shock.

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