11-45  Earthquake Disasters
 
   
Year              
Number of 5.0-5.9 6.0-6.9 Over 7.0 Casualties Deaths Direct
Region Earthquakes Richter Richter Richter     Economic Loss
  (time) scale scale scale (person)   (10 000 yuan)
               
2000 10 7 2   2987 10 146792
2001 12 8 2 1 750 9 148449
2002 5 4     362 2 14774
2003 21 10 6 1 7465 319 466040
2004 11 8 1   696 8 94959
2005 13 9 2   882 15 262811
2006 10 9     229 25 79962
2007 3 1 1   422 3 201922
2008 17 6 4 2 446293 69283 85949594
               
  Inner Mongolia 1 1         3218
  Hubei 2       1   603
  Sichuan 3   1 1 446062 69268 85679093
  Yunnan 3 2     157 5 155240
  Tibet 1   1   70 10 41137
  Gansu 2 1         5256
  Qinghai 1   1   3   26611
  Xinjiang 4 2 1 1     38437