On Monday, May the 12th at 2:28 pm Beijing time, the earthquake of 7.9 degree struck China's Sichuan Province. The affected areas follow a fault line along a mountain range that runs southwest to northeast across the province. Many remote mountain villages and farm communities had not yet been reached by aid workers. This far casualties amount to approximately 74,000 dead, or missing, many still buried or missing, and 250,000 injured. The earthquake has left about 5 million homeless.
Operation Mercy has been requested to help a university in the southern part of the Gansu Province with emergency help for students as dormatories are destroyed. Thousands of students are now forced to stay in the open fields as their living quarters are unsafe after the earthquake.
Project # 85092272
