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).
A USGS map shows that dozens of aftershocks occurred in a small region following the quake. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Chinese: æ±¶å·å¤§å°é; pinyin: WÃ¨nchuÄn dÃ  dÃ¬zhÃ¨n; literally: Great Wenchuan earthquake), also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occurred at 02:28:01 PM China Standard Time on May 12, 2008.