Tibetan tectonics trigger China quake: Geologists Camera caught quake as it happened May 12, 2008 (CNN) — The death toll from the China earthquake was 12,012 Tuesday night, but was expected to rise as soldiers and rescue crews pulled more bodies from crumbled buildings at the epicenter in Sichuan province. Authorities said the death toll from Monday's quake might change every hour, as they heard reports from crews frantically working to remove bodies and survivors from the debris, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua reported 26,026 people injured. Thousands were missing, many of them buried, and the tally kept changing. # Tibetan tectonics trigger China quake: Geologists The violent quake that shook China's Sichuan province is linked to a shift of the Tibetan plateau to the north and east, experts said. "There will certainly be many aftershocks," commented Paul Tapponnier, an expert on tectonics in the region that is prone to earthquakes. The quake, with a magnitude of...