Tent Towns House China's Earthquake Refugees
When the earthquake came to Pingtong it destroyed all but four buildings in this town, once home to 9,700 people. A week later the survivors are refugees in the ruins, situated in a gorge directly above the fault-line that delivered a 7.9 magnitude blow to Sichuan province on May 12. The town lost 111 middle-school school students and 47 grammar school students. Every adult can give the exact count of the children lost and saved, although they are vague on the total number of deaths, estimated at about 500.