The last major temblor, a magnitude 7.6 also centered in Nantou County, struck in 1999.
That temblor killed more than 5, 000 people and triggered fears of an eruption from a nearby volcano.
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The temblor did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
The last major quake a magnitude 7.6 temblor that killed more than 2, 000 people struck in 1999 and was also centered in Nantou County.
Relief teams flew in helicopters, dynamited through landslides to reach some of the most isolated communities in Sichuan province, where the temblor killed 186.
The quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades, and the first major temblor to strike the country in almost seven years.
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Whether you run a neighborhood bar or a multinational corporation, now would be great time to think through how your company can put its best foot forward when the Great Blizzard, Wildfire or Temblor of 2013 strikes.
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However, since then, the government has come under some criticism for its handling of the post-quake period -- notably the quality of school construction in the affected area and the number of children who perished in the temblor.
As people across China's Sichuan province continue to rebuild their lives one year after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake leveled some towns and cities, the region's famed giant pandas are still struggling due to the devastation wreaked by the deadly temblor.
Mourners placed yellow and white silk flowers at a quake memorial, sang the national anthem and a white jade carving of a clock that stopped at 2:28, when the temblor hit, with the date underneath, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Putting aside the questions about dicey construction in the temblor's reach and the roles various party bosses may have played in that (would a genuinely free press get to the truth?), what of the one-child policy that has so magnified the hurt of so many bereaved parents?
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