The deadly May 12 earthquake, measured at magnitude 8.0 on the Richter Scale, killed 69,227 people (official figure as of Sept. 19) and left 17,923 and 374,634 people missing and injured respectively. It is the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people.
Special Report: Wenchuan Earthquake

 

Rescuers search for buried people at the rubble in the quake-devastated Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 18, 2008. A survivor named Tang Xiong was saved from the rubble on May 18, 139 hours after being buried.