May 12 - Amateur video shows a student attempting to shelter from a powerful earthquake as it strikes southwest China.
The quake hit Sichuan province with its epicentre about 100 km (60 miles) from the provincial capital, Chengdu.
Within a few hours after the tremor hit on Monday (12 May 2008) the Chinese authorities had raised the estimated death toll to up to 5,000.
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