SAN GABRIELSCHOOLEnglish ProyectNames: Miguel Mejía, Ernesto Moran, Benjamín Viteri Date: 17/03/14Grade: Tercero de Bachillerato “B”

Border countriesLocation: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam.

Geographic coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E

Land boundaries: total: 22,117 km

Border countries: Afghanistan 76 km, Bhutan 470 km, Burma 2,185 km, India 3,380 km, Kazakhstan 1,533 km, North Korea 1,416 km, Kyrgyzstan 858 km, Laos 423 km, Mongolia 4,677 km, Nepal 1,236 km, Pakistan 523 km, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km, Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan 414 km, Vietnam 1,281 km

Regional borders: Hong Kong 30 km, Macau 0.34 km

World's fourth largest country (after Russia, Canada, and US); Mount Everest on the border with Nepal is the world's tallest peak

Natural disasters in ChinaChina is one of the countries most affected by natural disasters. It had 5 of the world's top 10 deadliest natural disasters; the top 3 occurred in China: the 1931 China floods, death toll 3 million to 4 million, the 1887 Yellow River flood, death toll 0.9 million to 2 million, and the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, death toll 0.83 million.

"Natural disasters occur frequently in China, affecting more than 200 million people every year. They have become an important restricting factor for economic and social development."

In the course of recorded history, many types of natural disasters – except volcano eruptions – have occurred in China, which include floods, droughts, meteorological, seismic, geological,maritime and ecological disasters as well as forestry and grassland fires.

These natural disasters pose serious threats to life and property safety to China and its people and severely affect the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of that country's economy and society. In addition, they threaten China's national security and social stability and stand in the way of economic development in some regions and poverty alleviation of certain rural population.

Natural hazards: frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence.

Volcanism: China contains some historically active volcanoes including Changbaishan (also known as Baitoushan, Baegdu, or P'aektu-san), Hainan Dao, and Kunlun although most have been relatively inactive in recent centuries.

Following is a list of the country's most deadly reported quakes in recent years:

April 14, 2010: A quake with a magnitude of 6.9 kills at least 400 and injures another 8,000 in the remote north-west province of Qinghai.

May 12, 2008: An 8.0-magnitude quake strikes the southwestern province of Sichuan, leaving nearly 87,000 dead or missing. Another 4.45 million are injured in the worst quake disaster to hit China in more than three decades.

July 23, 2006: 22 people are killed and 106 injured as an earthquake measuring 5.1 hits the southwestern province of Yunnan. More than 6,000 homes are destroyed and 38,000 buildings damaged across 13 municipalities.

July 21, 2003: An earthquake measuring 6.2 leaves 16 dead and 300 injured in 70 communities in Chuxiong, an autonomous prefecture comprised of the Yi minority, in Yunnan.

February 24, 2003: A violent earthquake measuring 6.8 takes 268 lives in the far-western region of Xinjiang and causes significant damage.

January 10, 1998: 47 are killed and 9,000 injured in a quake measuring 6.2 that shakes Shangyi and Zhangbei in the northern province of Hebei.

February 3, 1996: 228 perish and 3,700 are seriously injured in a quake measuring 7.0 near the city of Lijiang, in Yunnan.

October 24, 1995: An earthquake measuring 6.5 kills 52 in Yunnan.

April 26, 1990: 126 killed after an earthquake measuring 6.9 in Qinghai.

August 23, 1985: 67 die in an earthquake measuring 7.4 in Xinjiang.

July 28, 1976: The industrial city of Tangshan, 125 miles east of Beijing, is levelled by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale (8.2 according to sources outside China). Beijing puts the official death toll at 242,000, with 164,000 seriously injured. However, Western sources say the toll could be much higher.

February 4, 1975: A quake measuring 7.3 in the northeastern province of Liaoning claims 1,300 lives.

May 11, 1974: 10,000 die in Sichuan and Yunnan after an earthquake of 7.1 magnitude.

January 5, 1970: 15,621 are killed after an earthquake measuring 7.8 in Yunnan.

December 26, 1932: An earthquake measuring 7.6 leaves 70,000 dead, in the northwestern province of Gansu.

May 23, 1927: 41,000 people die in Gansu in an earthquake measuring 8.0.

December 16, 1920: 230,000 perish in an earthquake measuring 8.5 in Gansu.

A woman cries as she cannot find her four-year-old daughter and husband on the top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008

Sichuan, where more than 78,000 people died in a much larger earthquake in May, is located in southwest China near the Tibetan plateau 

Officials in Sichuan province have outraged donors by buying a series of luxury cars while millions of refugees face freezing temperatures in makeshift shelters.  

Bibliography

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7589265/China- earthquakes-timeline-of-deadly-disasters.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disasters_in_China http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?

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