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Thursday, May 15, 2008
A quake survivor grieves as he tries to find family members in the rubble in the quake ravaged town where thousands are dead or missing May 15, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. A major earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province May 12. The death toll has already risen to nearly 15,000 and is expected to rise with 25,000 still missing.
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