deadliest quake
This was the largest earthquake to strike the region in almost 60 years. The 
 in China's history was of magnitude 7.8, striking Tangshan in 1976. Approximately 250,000 people were killed. On May 23, a man who survived that quake after being buried for 10 days, was found alive in the rubble of an office building in Beichuan. He was the only survivor.
Eleven days later, a survivor pulled from rubble after Chinese earthquake