5月12日14时28分,四川省汶川县(东经103.4度、北纬31度)发生里氏8.0级地震,震级高、烈度大,我国四川、陕西、甘肃、云南、重庆、湖南、湖北、江西、北京、山西、内蒙古等20多个省、市、自治区都有不同程度震感。此次地震属浅源地震,是新中国成立以来破坏性最强、波及范围最大的一次地震。大地震之后,地震灾区还发生了数千次余震,引发大面积山体滑坡和泥石流等严重地质灾害。重灾区涉及国土 At 14:28 on May 12, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province (103.4 degrees east longitude and 31 degrees north latitude) with high magnitude and high intensity. China’s Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, More than 20 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in Jiangxi, Beijing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia all have varying degrees of sense of shock. This earthquake is a shallow source earthquake, which was the most destructive earthquake spreading to the largest since the founding of People’s Republic of China. After the devastating earthquake, thousands of aftershocks also occurred in the quake-stricken areas, causing major geological disasters such as large landslides and debris flows. Hardest hit areas involved