In what year did the Wenchuan earthquake occur? What day is today? How many minutes and seconds?

Wenchuan earthquake occurred in 12, and in May 2008 14: 28. A sudden earthquake left many people's homes in ruins. This is the most destructive and widespread earthquake since the founding of New China. The earthquake destroyed about 500,000 square kilometers of land in China.

In order to express the deep condolences of the people of all ethnic groups in China to the victims of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, the State Council decided to hold May 19 to 2 1 2008 as a national mourning day. Since 2009, May 12 has been the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day.

Extended data:

5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake disaster mainly has the following five characteristics:

1, with high strength, wide spread and strong destructive power. 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake is an internal earthquake in Chinese mainland, belonging to shallow earthquakes, with great destructive power. Except Jilin, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang, other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have different degrees of earthquake.

2. The epicenter is located in a high-incidence area. Since the earthquake records, there have been 8 earthquakes with magnitude above 7 within 200 kilometers near the epicenter of the 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake.

3. The earthquake resistance of buildings in disaster areas is weak. Wenchuan County has a population of 29,000 Qiang people, accounting for 26.69% of the county's total population. It is one of the four Qiang nationality inhabited counties in China. Qiang people's houses are stone walls or rammed earth slabs, which have poor seismic performance.

4, schools, hospitals and other public places * * * serious casualties. As the 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake occurred in the afternoon, schools, hospitals and other units were concentrated, and students, faculty and medical staff suffered serious casualties.

5. Earthquake relief is difficult. The epicenter of Wenchuan County is1325m above sea level, surrounded by many mountains such as Chaping Mountain and Qionglai Mountain. The terrain is complex and the traffic is inconvenient. After the earthquake, roads and communications were cut off. At that time, there were many showers in the disaster area, which caused great difficulties to the work in the disaster area.

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