About 10, 000 houses and nearly 1, 000 commercial buildings will have to be demolished as a result of the devastating quake in February.

BBC: Christchurch businesses still hit a year after quake

Visions of the devastating quake and tsunami that killed thousands in Japan in March 2011 fueled the fright, but the waves proved to be smaller and less powerful than feared.

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The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off roads and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county, in Sichuan's Ya'an city area, which is further south on the same fault line where a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region five years ago.

NPR: China Rushes Relief After Sichuan Quake Kills 180

"In Japan, women take the initiative to get married -- and the trend for them had been to focus on their career and enjoy single life, " explained Ritsuko Matsui, a prominent psychiatrist who counseled survivors of Japan's last devastating quake around Kobe in 1995, which left more than 6, 000 people dead.

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"Aftershocks can be just as devastating as the initial quake, " said Adjie Fachrurrazi, emergency response coordinator in Indonesia for the CARE aid organization, in a statement.

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The area lies near the same Longmenshan fault where the devastating 7.9-magnitude quake struck in May 2008, leaving more than 90, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead.

WSJ: China's Sichuan Province Hit by Strong Earthquake

It was along the same fault line that a devastating magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving more than 90, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.

NPR: China Rushes Relief After Sichuan Quake Kills 180