Subduction zones ... San Andreas fault — which runs along most of the Californian coast. Caltech experts suggest that Southern California is at particularly high risk of a major earthquake.

At the school gates, some parents have left their children's identifications cards as a sort of makeshift memorial. Others still cling to them, like Bi Kaiwei. When the major earthquake struck a week ...

The fact that this was their first such event hints to the low level of awareness of earthquake hazards in engineering practice in the country. I remember that at the conference, a new seismic hazard ...