China has publicly came out and admitted that shoddy construction may contribute to the school collapses during the Sichuan earthquake.

"There were possibly some construction problems because we have built schools relatively quickly in recent times," said Ma Zongjin, chairman of the committee to investigate the quake.

Read more over at the BBC.

One person was killed and 23 others were injured after a 6.2 earthquake, an aftershock of the one in May, hit the Sichuan Province at 6PM local time on Aug 5, just hours after the Olympic torch passed by the area.

New calculations touted by Southern California Earthquake Center and California Geological Survey predicted that there's a 99.7 percent likelihood an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 or greater will occur in California within the next 30 years. A 7.5 magnitude or greater quake will only have a 46 percent chance of occurring.