People enjoy warm weather in the spring along a river as osiers begin to sprout when the temperature reaches 20 degrees centigrade in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, March 16, 2009. [Zhu Zheng/Xinhua]
(Xinhua News Agency March 17, 2009)
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province at 2:28 PM on May 12.