May 12 began like any other day for 9-year-old Li Yao, a student in Shifang City in the northern part of China’s Sichuan Province. Like any other day, she had gone to school that morning, gone home for lunch and returned to school that afternoon. Around 2:30 p.m., shortly after class began again, something out of the ordinary happened that would change her life, along with the lives of everyone in that part of the country. The ground began to emit a low-frequency noise, and the entire building started to shake violently. Read More