The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw. The epicenter was in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, 80 km west/northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu, with its main tremor occurring at 14:28:01.42 China Standard Time (06:28:01.42 UTC), on May 12, 2008 lasting for around 2 minutes, in the quake almost 80% of buildings were destroyed.
What percentage of buildings were destroyed during the quake?
almost 80%
The epicenter was in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, 80 km west/northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu, with its main tremor occurring at 14:28:01.42 China Standard Time (06:28:01.42 UTC), on May 12, 2008 lasting for around 2 minutes, in the quake almost 80% of buildings were destroyed.
The epicenter was in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, eighty km west/northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu, with its main tremor occurring at fourteen:twenty-eight:one point forty-two China Standard Time (six:twenty-eight:one point forty-two UTC), on May twelve, two thousand eight lasting for around two minutes, in the quake almost eighty percent of buildings were destroyed.
What percentage of buildings were destroyed during the quake?