The muscles of the eye are designed to stabilize and move the eyes. All eye muscles have a resting muscle tone that is designed to stabilize eye position. During movements, certain muscles increase their activity while others decrease it.
Location of province of Sichuan within China. Sichuan is a province found in the nation of China. Home to 80,418,200 people, it is the 4th largest division in China in terms of population. Sichuan gained its current status as a province in the year 1949. The government of Sichuan is lead by Wei Hong and is based in the province capital of Chengdu (Population: 7,415,590).
The M 7.9 earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China is already tragic, with at least 10,000 people dead. It's China's worst earthquake since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake-the earthquake that killed at least a quarter of a million people, and maybe many more.his earthquake, however, was not on the plate boundary itself. It was off on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, on the boundary between the high country and the Sichuan basin. Here's the USGS earthquake location map.