SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

FACTS

• It happened on May 12, 2008
• There were 69,195 dead
• There were 18,392 missing
• There were 374,643

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT

• The ecological impact is that
• it crushed trees, and injured,
• even killed people and animals.
• It also hurt the ecosystem because
• there was debris everywhere.

EARTHQUAKE FACTS

• The earthquake was 8.0 MS and 7.9 MW. It only lasted 2 minutes
• It destroyed about 80% of the buildings.
• It's speed was 3.1 kilometer/second
• It ruptured about a total of 300 km
• The focus was deeper than 10 km. thousands of lives were lost, hundreds were injured

HOW CAN WE FIX IT?

• One way we can fix the environment is cleaning up all of the trash the was created.
• We can recycle items found to make new equipment.
• We can also make a donation to china to replace all of the lost homes.
• We can fix the droughts by filling holes and in time water will come back.
• We can save the forests by picking up the dead trees and replanting. We'll have new forests.