Parents suspect that this is because they were better constructed than the school's two collapsed buildings.
People flooded into the streets as the ground shook, and many were trapped in collapsed buildings.
Their work was hampered by the huge scale of the devastation, where landslides and collapsed buildings made many roads impassible.
If however, we look pass the collapsed buildings and the tent cities we will see that the quake also left behind an opportunity.
Other images showed collapsed buildings, streets littered with debris and groups of people, many of them elderly, being treated in mobile medical tents.
They will take specialist equipment including listening devices and camera systems which can penetrate rubble to search for trapped survivors in collapsed buildings.
The death toll from the quake is expected to rise even higher, with state media saying thousands are still trapped in collapsed buildings.
Down the road, HyQ could be a substitute for humans in hazardous situations and search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings after natural disasters.
In Yingxiu Township at the Xuankou middle and high school, a moment of silence was held amid the ruins of collapsed buildings and debris.
Social media users who said they were in Lushan county posted photos of collapsed buildings and reported that water and electricity had been cut off.
The concept was developed in the 1980s, focusing on collapsed buildings.
Retained Fire-fighters respond to emergency incidents including fires, road traffic collisions and other specialist service calls such as chemical spills, collapsed buildings and other types of rescues.
The HART units - made up of seven teams of six - will be on call 24 hours a day at the Ambulance Special Operations Centre (ASOC) to respond to multiple casualties, people trapped in collapsed buildings, flooding or hazardous materials incidents.
Each of two 75-foot max trucks can hold up to eight average dump trucks' worth of debris and has a high-speed crane with interchangeable heads that can lift, crush and cut its way through collapsed buildings in 20 minutes to an hour.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
Three office buildings collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro at around 8:30 pm last night.
Dozens of buildings collapsed in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Van province in Turkey.
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Seventy-seven buildings collapsed in the town of Sultandagi and the effects were felt as far away as the capital.
The government also estimated that 250, 000 residences and 30, 000 commercial buildings collapsed or were severely damaged in the earthquake.
The water barreled through with such force, it knocked Gulfport's town hall off of its foundation, and the walls of some brick and mortar buildings collapsed.
He said some people were feared trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in the bombing.
He has told me that the Church St South is indeed gone, and many buildings have collapsed.
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Thousands are feared to have been buried under factories, schools and other buildings that collapsed in Monday's magnitude 7.9 quake.
Farmers' leader Tom Johnston of NFU Scotland said hundreds of agricultural buildings had collapsed under the weight of snow across the north and north-east of Scotland.
"Buildings and the walls of buildings are collapsed, " he said.
"Buildings and the walls of buildings are collapsed, " Marwan said.
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One of the hardest hit areas was Baoxing county, where almost all buildings had collapsed, including many that were built after the 2008 earthquake, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Scott Devico, a spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management, said Monday the roofs of 16 homes and buildings had collapsed because of the weight of the snow piled atop them.
New York's Office of Emergency Management is assessing the structural damage to buildings around the collapsed World Trade Center complex.
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