Yingxiu Earthquake Site

512 Wenchuan Extra-large Earthquake Yingxiu Earthquake Memorial Hall "5.12" Wenchuan Extra-large Earthquake Yingxiu Earthquake Memorial Hall is located in the half-mountainside of Yuzixi Village, Yingxiu Town, designed by Academician He Jingtang of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The area is 8,800 square meters, the building area is 4,800 square meters, and the exhibition area is 4,000 square meters. It was officially opened on 2012 year 5 month 12.

Wenchuan 5.12 earthquake, the magnitude of the Richter earthquake 8.0Ms, Beijing time May 12, 2008 14:28 minutes 04 seconds. The worst disaster occurred in Yingxiu Town, the earthquake site was selected in Lukou Middle School. A clock found in the school ruins was set for the moment, carved with Han Baiyu as a memorial sculpture. 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake killed 69227 people, injured 374643, and disappeared 17,923. Nineteen students and two teachers remain under the ruins of the school. Because of the five-story teaching building, there is one deep underground.

In the Wenchuan earthquake, Yingxiu town is a heavy disaster area. Millions of cubic meters of rock debris from steep cliffs to pour down, causing surging rock flows, equivalent to the power of hundreds of atomic bombs, two-thirds of the houses collapsed, the town into ruins, full of ruins. Through the ruins of the school, the campus remains the saddest form of destruction. We seem to see the destruction of the great earthquake of that year: buildings deformed, twisted, collapsed, and sunk, as if into the great mouth of the Devil of Hell.

At the site of the Wenchuan earthquake, the Qiaokou Middle School in Yingxiu Town fixed the date of 14:28 on May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan 8.0 magnitude earthquake, the real scene of the destruction of the Qiaokou Middle School, let people recreate the moment, the Wenchuan earthquake, resulting in 69227 people killed and 374643 injured, 17923 people are missing.

The Yingxiu Earthquake Site is located at the southern gate of Aba Prefecture, 78km away from Chengdu. It is the only place to pass through Jiuzhaigou, Wolong and Siguniang Mountain, which is the Xuankou Middle School of Yingxiu Town. The entire campus is in ruins. From the condition of the ruins, we can see how terrible the situation is. A traveler who has time through Yingxiu suggested to see it, although it was very depressing.