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Faces in China Earthquake Video Information
Added on: May 19, 2008
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People's Faces in 8.0-maginitude earthquake China's western on May 12, 2008
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More than 15 million houses collapsed in Sichuan , Gansu , Shaanxi , Chongqing , Yunnan and Hubei provinces, and 5.7 million people were evacuated.
China announced three days of national mourning to begin Monday with a three-minute silence at 2:28 p.m. local time (2:28 a.m. May 19, 2008 EDT ), exactly a week after the quake struck Sichuan . Air raid sirens will sound, as well as horns of vehicles, trains and ships.
President Hu Jintao expressed gratitude for the arrival of international aid and noted that "relief is still a grim struggle, the task is arduous and time is pressing."
Two U.S. military C-17 aircraft landed in Chengdu , the Sichuan capital, carrying 15,000 meals, tents, blankets, lanterns, generators and hand tools. The planes came from Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam . The state Xinhua news agency said the supplies were worth $1.6 million , and marked the first donation by a foreign military.
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