A staff member takes bottles of water for tests from the entrance to the contaminated water plant after it resumed operations in west Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Feb. 23, 2009. [Xinhua]
(Xinhua News Agency February 23, 2009)
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province at 2:28 PM on May 12.
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![A staff member takes bottles of water for tests from the entrance to the contaminated water plant after it resumed operations in west Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Feb. 23, 2009. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090224/000cf1a48b7f0b0d916d13.jpg "A staff member takes bottles of water for tests from the entrance to the contaminated water plant after it resumed operations in west Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Feb. 23, 2009. [Xinhua]")
