What an absolute catastrophe...allow me to express my most heartfelt sympathies for the victims and their families on this day of mourning. Comfort each other, and join together to pay homage to those lives that, though only a few out of many, were just as important as any other.
Do not contemplate why the quake happened, but focus instead on how to rebuild what has been lost, both in your communities and in your hearts.

Just some information others may not know, this was the worst natural disaster China had experienced since the Tangshan quake of 1976 which killed an estimated 242,000 people.


Tangshan, after the quake