Chinesische Studenten beten für Leute, die sich für das Erdbeben, das in Lushan county geschah erlitt, im Südwesten Chinas Provinz Sichuan, auf dem Campus der Zhejia
Chinese students pray for people suffered in the earthquake that happened in Lushan county, southwest Chinas Sichuan province, at the campus of Zhejiang Foresty and Farming University in Linan city, east Chinas Zhejiang province, 20 April 2013. Lushan reported the most deaths in the earthquake happened on 20 April 2013, but there was concern that casualties in neighboring Baoxing county might have been under-reported because of its inaccessibility after roads were blocked and power and phone services cut off. As the region went into the first night after the quake, rain started to fall, slowing rescue work. Forecasts are for more rain over the next few days, and the China Meteorological Administration has warned of landslides. Tens of thousands of people moved into tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back as aftershocks continued to jolt the region. Lushan, lies where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau and sits on the Longmenshan fault. It was along that fault line that a devastating magnitude-7.9 Wenchuan earthquake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving 87, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.
