The nineteenth deadliest earthquake of all time, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which measured at 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China and by any name killed at least 69,000 less than three months before China hosted the world in the 2008 Summer Olympics. China Pictorial Blog