Last Saturday, a destructive earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, near the epicenter of the devastating 2008 earthquake, damaging thousands of structures and triggering landslides in the mountainous region. As of yesterday, the death toll stood at more than 200, with nearly 12,000 injured, 23 still missing, and tens of thousands made homeless. The quake was measured at magnitude 7.0 by China's earthquake administration and magnitude of 6.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Rescue teams and government aid personnel have struggled to reach the affected area, as many roads were damaged.
A rescuer walks in front of a damaged building after Saturday's earthquake in Lingguan town of Baoxing county, Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with 11,000 injuries. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya'an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. (Reuters/Aly Song)
Rescue workers search through the rubble of a building destroyed by an earthquake in Qingyuan village of Baoxing county, on April 22, 2013. The efforts under way Monday in mountainous Sichuan province after a quake Saturday that killed at least 188 people showed that the government has continued to hone its disaster reaction -- long considered a crucial leadership test in China -- since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the western region of Yushu. (AP Photo)
Rescuers make their way along a street in search of survivors after an earthquake hit Lushan County in Ya'an City, on April 21, 2013. Thousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China in a race to find survivors from the powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A rescue worker helps a sniffer dog down from a truck along a road in southwestern China's Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. After dynamiting through landslide-blocked roads, Chinese relief crews hurried food, water and other supplies into the rural hills of Sichuan province on Monday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chen Liujun carries books out of her classroom after Saturday's earthquake hit Lushan county, on April 22, 2013. Chen and her fellow third-year high school students in Lushan were transferred to Chengdu to complete their high school education and prepare for the coming college entrance exams in the provincial capital, reported local news. (Reuters/Stringer)
People charge their mobile phones at a relief center in the county seat of Lushan, on April 22, 2013. The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China's full range of disaster response is on display: Trucks with x-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels -- even a tent for insurance claims.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A woman rests on a makeshift bed setup outdoors near Shangli town in southwestern China's Sichuan province, on April 21, 2013. Residents awoke Sunday after spending the night outdoors or in their cars in a town near the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that struck the steep hills of Sichuan province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Local residents have a family meal outside their damaged home after the earthquake in Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China's devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. (AFP/Getty Images)
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