At 14:28 of May 12, 2008, a 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in China, killing 69,197 people and leaving 18,209 missing. It was the largest earthquake in China since the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976.
It was a terrible day. The houses and the schools were destroyed. Many people lost their families. Hundreds of the children lost their schools and classmates. One minute before, they were reading, smiling, and speaking, and one minute after, everything was ended. However, everything is getting better and better. With the help of the government and the volunteers, the victims summoned the nerve to rebuild their towns soon.
Why? Who was the murderer? People themselves? Was it the punishment for us for destroying the environment? In any case, we must protect our earth carefully from now on. We should treasure everything in the earth, including the people, the animals, the trees, the water and anything else.
