The government informed despite the wounded pass of 10 a thousand. About 900 students they had been soterradas in a school - 50 bodies already had been rescued. The Chinese government sent troops to the place.

The tremor, registered to 14h28 (3h28 of Brasilia), had its epicenter the 92 kilometers of the capital of the province, Chengdu. About 80 percent of the building of the independent region of Beichuan Qiang, in the southwest of the Province of Sichuan, had fallen down

The Chinese first-minister, Wen Jibao, described the earthquake as a “disaster” and asked for “calm” to the population. “Ahead of the disaster, most important it is the calm, the confidence”, declared the head of government in the airplane that took it the Sichuan. “We are ahead of an important disaster”, added.

Wen said despite the central government asked for to the local and living governments that co-ordinate the rescue tasks.

The state television showed multitudes in the streets of the capital of Sichuan, Chengdu. All seemed unharmed, but a woman bleed in the head.