Local people wait for the bus in a light rain which is the first after 111 days of no precipitation in Beijing on Thursday, February 12, 2009. [Xinhua]
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province at 2:28 PM on May 12.
![Local people wait for the bus in a light rain which is the first after 111 days of no precipitation in Beijing on Thursday, February 12, 2009. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090213/000cf1a48b7f0aff0b9007.jpg "Local people wait for the bus in a light rain which is the first after 111 days of no precipitation in Beijing on Thursday, February 12, 2009. [Xinhua]")
