8 Days A Week

A woman who survived on rainwater has been freed after being trapped in rubble for 195 hours in the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, which has now killed more than 40,000. The 60-year-old woman escaped with just facial bruises and a minor fracture during her eight-day ordeal.

The official Xinhua news agency identified her as Wang Youqun, a retiree, and said she had been unconscious for a day when a falling girder hit her head in the May 12 quake.

She was apparently trapped in a landslide that swept away a temple in the city of Pengzhou and was intially able to move, but a later aftershock trapped her between two rocks, according to AP.

Her dramatic discovery came hours after rescue teams pulled two men men from the rubble in Sichuan province.
One of the men was found in a mine in Qingchuna county and a second in a hydroelectric plant in Wenchuan county, state-run media reported.

They had been buried for six days and 20 hours and seven days and 11 hours, respectively, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

China's observance of the earthquake came exactly a week after the 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook the county's southwest to its core -- 2:28 p.m. Monday. The quake killed at least 34,073 and injured another 245,109.